Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the only authoritative, firsthand report on Chinese Turkestan reached the U.S. That report came from TIME'S Chungking correspondent, Theodore White, who with LIFE Photographer William Vandivert has just completed a two-month tour of the hitherto forbidden area. Correspondent White brought back fresh and important news...
Russia has withdrawn from the heartland of Central Asia. Over all Chinese Turkestan the Government of nationalist China has reassumed full authority. Its alomans blazon with fresh white paint as far as the high Pamirs and dark-eyed dancers of the oases tread out, to the measured beat of tambourines, new dances dedicated to "final victory...
...city put on a festive air. The streets were filled with officers and men in smart, bemedaled uniforms. The ballet, opera, concerts, plays, movies drew big crowds. Subway stations shone with bright pink paint; fresh plaster concealed the scars on bombed buildings...
...though at times the dancing is fresh and lively, especially in the case of Sono Osato, one of the most seductive and beguiling of wenches...
Along a 150-mile stretch of the river, similar engagements were being fought. Desperately, the German command was throwing fresh divisions into the battle: Hitler had ordered the Dnieper held at all costs. But the verdammte Bolschewis-ten-the damned Bolsheviks-had attacked earlier than expected, pierced the yet unready German defenses. Moscow reports spoke of Nazi troopers streaming out of sacked, blazing Kiev...