Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung-hsi (things) that you collect out here. We have pared our operating essentials (clothes, household equipment, etc.) to a minimum and sent some of our things south against the possibility of looting in Shanghai should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay, got a new Ford automobile the other day as a gift from an evacuating Chinese family who couldn't take the car along with them. Then they got a grand piano in the same fashion. Now they...
...newly won southern territory, MacArthur reasoned, the Reds would soon be able to establish bases from which an airborne conquest of thinly guarded Okinawa would be a cinch. The waters from Okinawa to Hokkaido could be patrolled by their 100 long-range submarines. In short, the fall of China, MacArthur observed, had made possible the military threat of a "double envelopment" of Japan. There was no evidence of an impending Soviet attack. If it came, it could only precipitate, or be part of, the world's worst war. But the business of a commander is not to guess whether...
...specific issues that were straightened out last night, appears to be an innocent one. Fisher wrote the Report during the summer at the request of a high officer of the National Young Republican Federation, and the YRC's officers knew nothing about it until they returned to College this fall...
...things got straightened out last night in this case of Fisher vs, the Harvard Young Republican Club. All of them fall into one basic, unpleasant pattern. It is a pattern of guilt on both sides. The Club has been guilty of various underhanded political machinations--the sort of maneuvering that probably goes on in all the big undergraduate political organizations, but that has never before become general knowledge. What is more serious, it has also been guilty of encouraging Fisher, whether officially or unofficially, to do some of the things he has done. Fisher, on his side, has been guilty...
...Louria, who moved up to 175, took on Neil Keller, an All-New England guard this fall, and, after several near pins by the cruciflx hold, won a 10-6 decision...