Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals' attention was focused on the area round Suchow, key to Nanking and the Yangtze Valley, now threatened by 185,000 Communist troops under General Chen Yi. As one minister put it: "Manchuria is a limb that has been amputated. The body can live, despite amputation. North China is another limb, and even that may be sacrificed. But Central China is the Nationalist heart-and if the heart is pierced the body dies...
...Charles left France out on a limb by accepting the Russian draft as a basis for consideration. France's chief delegate, Adrien Thierry, was so infuriated that he wouldn't speak to the Anglo-U.S. delegates after the session...
...Snapped Limbs. One reason why the system pays off is that he sticks to promising companies that already have good management; once he has bought in, he may advise, but seldom gives orders. Like other venture-loving businessmen, he occasionally finds himself out on a limb...
...does the heavy punditing for the team, but the quiet Stewart has the reputation of being a better legman. Nevertheless, the brother act performs smoothly. "We have no fights on policy," says Joe. "Our arguments are on points of emphasis-and on how far out on a limb we should...
Talking Turkey. "Beedle" Smith had called to talk turkey with Molotov. In a full statement of the U.S. position, he told the Soviet Foreign Minister that the U.S. is economically sound of heart & limb; that it is by no means paralyzed in its international activities by the upcoming presidential campaign; that a united U.S. people are just as determined as ever to oppose Soviet aggression and the spread of Communist ideas; and that if Moscow is beginning to think anything else, it is listening too hard to Henry Wallace-and swallowing its own propaganda...