Word: lair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the Nationalist armies smashed ahead. In the biggest week of Government successes since the undeclared civil war began, all but a few miles of China's strategic railroad lines were free of Communist troops. Between the Communists' Inner Mongolia base at Kalgan, and their lair at Yenan, the fall of Tatung and Fengcheng enabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces to drive a battering wedge (see map). Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol...
Grand Slam, Declared. In Lair, Ky., the State Highway Department condemned a 200-foot bridge; 30 minutes later it collapsed into the South Licking River...
None of the audience saw the bird when it left the stage of the Colonial, so that several Poonmen who rushed up several minutes later were unable to trace their pet. Baffled, they returned to their lair to await further developments...
Always willing to try something new, I purchased one of the above-mentioned tools and, with a light heart, set out to show the local clamdiggers how we moderns extract the lowly mollusc from his lair...
...battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements and docks. Three enemy ships were destroyed. Earlier the same day, B-29s and B-24s had dumped almost 200 tons of bombs on the nuisance raiders' lair. The little island was getting a lot of attention...