Word: manipur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...
Imphal is the capital of the little state of Manipur. It lies in a swampy valley, famous in agriculture for its rice and tea production, famous in sport as the place where polo was invented. Last week it threatened to become famous militarily as the place where the Allies' Burma campaign of 1943-44 came...
...three points near the Burma-India line the Japanese counterattacked. They crossed the Chindwin River in force, at week's end were almost across the Indian border to Manipur. If they succeeded in reaching their goal (Stilwell's and Chennault's supply lines), the Japs might make the other actions look like tea parties, might nullify all Allied gains since they ran Stilwell out of Burma two years...