Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier's appearance at Dillon Field House is now scheduled to last two to three hours. In response to Castro's requests, the Law School Forum has planned on a brief speech, probably not longer than 30 minutes, to be followed by a questioning period...
...preoccupation last week with the need, and the expectancy, of bringing off fruitful negotiations at the summit. Other NATO partners were prepared to talk at the summit, but - thanks largely to Khrushchev's retreat from his original "either or" ultimatum - were in no mood to yield easily. No longer so fearful that a real ultimatum showdown with Russia was at hand, they felt less need to make a parade of unreal unanimity...
...words were proved true in the border province of Kham, where the Reds had been longer in control. The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized. Nomad Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss of power te the commissars. The Khambas, great shaggy men often 6 ft. tall, with leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove...
Such pointed barbs, repeated in the late years over radio and TV, did not go unnoticed by his colleagues. "He no longer speaks to the present generation." one architect snapped...
...British guerrilla expert, General Orde Wingate, had made it axiomatic that troops could not be expected to operate efficiently in enemy territory longer than three months at a time. When the remnants of the Marauders, dragging themselves over the 6,000-foot passes of the Kumon Range in the monsoon rains, made the assault on Myitkyina airfield, they had been five months behind the Japanese lines. They gained their objective, and then simply fell apart as an organization...