Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
Whether or not Diplomat Daniels was right (some underlings in State and sev eral Latin American diplomats thought he wasn't), the unappetizing fact was that a dictator had been given fresh prestige at a time when pressures from his democratic Central American neighbors (TIME, May 10), had begun to threaten his 16-year reign...
...that there was glory to be got in Mexico. There was also a little matter of unpaid Mexican debts in which Frenchmen were interested. Aware that the U.S., torn by its own civil war, could not interfere, Napoleon set out on an adventure that he expected would bring him fresh laurels (he had defeated Austria only three years before) and would put his protege, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian, on the throne of Mexico. His General Charles-Ferdinand de Lorencez landed at the port of Vera Cruz in March 1862, and began the rigorous march to Mexico City...
...committee's bill did not commit Congress to carry out the full four-year, 70-group program. It was simply spending the extra $822 million now to give the Air Force a flying start toward full modernization, to breathe fresh life into the emaciated aircraft industry and keep it healthy in case of need. If the international situation eased, the program could always be cut back. Congress preferred to be on the safe side...
...Inter-House Athletic Council reversed itself last week and decided to hold a golf competition after all. So yesterday Cambridge's Fresh Pond Gold Course was invaded by four-man teams from all the Houses. They are playing an elimination tournament to determine the House links crown...