Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could more food be taken from the beaten enemy? Said Hoover: "There are Americans who . . . believe in an 'eye for an eye,' a 'tooth for a tooth'.. . . No one is the enemy of children . . . [and] to keep 500,000 American boys in garrison among starving women and children is unthinkable...
Even as Marshall settled down to a series of conferences, Communists and Nationalists fought fiercely to consolidate local positions in Manchuria before the General's pacifying personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital...
...burning Frankfurt, he remembers,. Garrison Soldier Helmut Lotz killed himself, wife and two children rather than disobey the order to evacuate. "He saw only one way out." In Leipzig, Knauth met a girl with whom he had played as a child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched...
...best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number on the Nation, a mere hotheaded warhorse. They were proud of the difference...
Meanwhile, Red Army tanks and planes were a mere 20 miles from Teheran, at Karaj. Armored columns were said to be moving west by night towards Lake Urmia, near the Turkish and Iraq frontiers. But the British (who garrison Iraq) and the Turks (who are fully mobilized) stayed cannily silent. Both were old hands at playing the nerves game...