Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipped through the front lines and joined the Russian army. "I want to fight Germans," he said. After training only twelve days, Abraham was up in the front line for the first Russian big push toward Kharkov. In the Russian retreat to Stalingrad, he was wounded by an exploding land mine. When he rejoined his unit, it was for Zhukov's march to Berlin. The Russians sent him to the Potsdam officers' school...
...British ships blocked the path of the Haim Arlosoroff as it came into sight of the Promised Land. When British troops came on board, Abraham split off a three-foot length of lifeboat oar and fought back with the others. The British subdued the immigrants with tear gas and water from firehoses, deported them to Cyprus...
...Urban re-development means rennovation of rundown city areas such as Boston's downtown district. The hitch in such a program is that neither private enterprise nor the city can afford to pay for the tearing down of old buildings, the land on which new buildings are to be constructed, and the construction of the new buildings themselves. Hence federal and state funds are needed...
Every shop in Naousa was plundered, even the barbershops, from which razors and hair tonic were carried away. The two-story hospital was blown up with land mines. Nine factories were destroyed, including a textile mill which employed 1,000, the biggest in the Balkans. When a workman asked why the means of livelihood of innocent people should be thus snatched away, a rebel answered: "How else are we going to get you people to come to the hills with...
...leveling-off process, noted across the land, showed signs last week of also slowing down new wage raises. In the year's first major test of fourth-round demands, the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union lost its fight for a 10? increase in the New England cotton and rayon industry...