Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerusalem, shrine of three faiths, has been divided and harassed by military occupation ever since the Arab-Jewish war in Palestine ended over a year ago. Between the Arab-held Old City and the Israeli-held New City, lies a narrow no man's land cluttered with shell-torn ruins. Only the foolhardy would cross the narrow strip without special permission from both sides...
...Liberals' Robert Gordon Menzies, 55, an urbane lawyer and veteran politician. Out of government leadership and onto the Opposition bench goes Labor's Joseph Benedict Chifley, 64, a dignified, pipe-smoking former locomotive engineer with a talent for playing the ponies (Australia is a horse-happy land...
Time for Remembrance. Next morning Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew off from Chengtu. His plane bypassed Kunming, capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...plot against the Generalissimo failed, and two days after Premier Yen's departure, Chiang himself abandoned the land on which he had fought for half a lifetime, headed for the new capital 90 miles off the China coast...
...great march was on. All over Italy, but mostly on the brown, exhausted earth of Calabria and Sicily, thousands of peasants were taking by force what they wanted most in life-land. Swinging picks and axes, they invaded the big estates and began to work the soil...