Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class. . . . This battle is ... for starting positions for the final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this battle. . . . The Communist Information Bureau in Belgrade will coordinate...
...months had passed since Nationalist forces seized Yenan, stronghold of North China's Communists (TIME, March 31). Yenan's fall promised better things to come. But U.S. leaders hemmed & hawed over aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; inflation and political rivalries gnawed at the morale of his people. Gradually, the initiative passed back to the far-from-whipped Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung...
...Well then, if the droppings of crows which are more numerous than Chiang's airplanes have not hit you, can you not rest assured that no bombs from airplanes will fall on your head...
Food, housing, and social activities all fall among the student worries alleviated by the office. One member of the Center's staff tells of many instances in which she was able to help by instructing foreigners in such social matters as where to get the particular types of food required by their religions, what clothing to buy for the winter months, and where to find vacation entertainment...
...views tonight's competition as a warm-up for some of the better Varsity personnel. And he realizes the condition his athletes may be in as a result of exams. "I only hope they don't fall asleep out there tomorrow night," he said yesterday...