Word: intact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city. Three million people still live in Berlin and most of them will probably keep on living here and rebuild their city when they can. The arteries through which a city's life blood flows-the streets, water mains, gas mains, sewage pipes, electric lines, subways-are either intact or being repaired. The destruction above ground is impressive, but Berlin is still a city...
Which Is the Scenery? Big Power dominance was still intact. People primarily concerned with this fact looked upon such subsidiaries as the Economic and Social Council and such provisions as the statement of purposes and principles as mere window-dressing. But they were more than that...
...more details: "Yokohama is gone, Nagoya is no longer a worthwhile target. Kobe is gone. Soon we'll be striking smaller cities in the 100,000-population class." Osaka had had it, and only ten square miles of Tokyo's 60-sq. mi. industrial area was left intact-one year after the first B-29 raid on Japan. Unlike Germany, Japan lacks the time, technicians and industrial savvy to rebuild ruined factories quickly. Said General LeMay: "It is just a matter of time before we get everything of value in Japan...
Change of Heart. The night I arrived in the echoing, empty streets of Nanning -which is practically intact-I watched some Chinese troops marching through the town. They were singing-the first time I had heard Chinese troops singing in the field since...
Their best cave-and-pillbox defense lines were cut through. On Luzon last week they lost their grip on Manila's water supply system when 38th Division troops captured Wawa Dam intact. Santa Fe fell, though some 30,000 enemy troops stood ready to fight it out on the fertile floor of the Cagayan Valley. On Mindanao Jap units were being driven back into the unexplored mountain jungles east of the Sayre Highway...