Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gang...
...played around with a neighborhood gang called the "Filthy Five," did so well at his books that he got himself admitted briefly to Georgia Tech before he had finished high school...
Where the original play opens in the Caribbean monarch's castle, the cinema version goes back to fill in what O'Neill left to the imagination. Covering his days as a pullman porter, his murder of a vindictive rival, his escape from a chain gang, and usurping of power on a tropical isle. "Emperor Jones" is almost over before O'Neill's story begins...
...Chinese side, Generalissimo Chiang streamlined the command of his field forces, began to clean up the worst abuses of a chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell...
Uninformed, certainly. Lacrosse is a contact game and those unfamiliar with the rules have little right to publish their ignorance, representing fight and spirit as sadistic brawling by a gang of "sore losers." Discouraging to all Harvard men who are proud of their teams, who want to see hard-fought, yes, clean games...