Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ropes for Passengers. If the Suchow forces were able to link up with the encircled Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 50 miles to the south, they would be a serious threat to the rear of Communist General Chen Yi, commanding the Huai River attack. Chen Yi made a quick about-face. Leaving a small holding force behind on the Huai, he sent six columns (some 125,000 men) to cope with the threat from the north...
...tough with Russia" policy; the Pact would increase the rift between East and West; it would again decrease the chances of an eventual reconciliation; and it would be an invitation for Russia to launch a retaliative measure. In other words, the Pact might become just another link in the international game of tit-for-tat which brings war closer and closer...
...that she sheltered him laid Stavroula wide open to more party blackmail. Soon she was in up to her neck. Together with one of the city's big booksellers, an official in the Bank of Greece, the owner of a smart perfume shop and others, Stavroula formed a link in Athens' Communist apparatus. Each shop was used in turn as a yavka (Russian for front) for shipping recruits to guerrilla bands in the mountains...
...time she heard her heavenly voices, as a farm girl at Domremy, to her anguished death at the stake. At times the meticulous history lesson dulls the drama. The storming of Orleans is supposedly as historically correct as research could make it, down to the last split skull and link of armor; but on film it adds up to noisy and not altogether convincing movie battle. Once the picture loses sight of the fact that it is Joan's personal story, she becomes a lifeless symbol in a pageant...
Modern man, always looking for the elusive "missing link" (more properly, a common ancestor of apes and men), has been digging up these fossils for a quarter of a century. With each new find he has been thinking a little better of his second cousins, 50,000 times removed...