Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's Army of good field commanders, indifferent staff officers and middling matériel has not lacked publicity. China's Army is the army nobody knows. The world at large does not know it, because the small corps of foreign correspondents in China feel they must stick close to big cities to get big stories. Chinese politicians are ignorant of the war front because they consider their job to be in Chungking. The war front is days away from Chungking except by plane, and China has no planes to spare for junkets. Even foreign military observers almost...
...Matériel. Winston Churchill admitted that it had been impossible for the men to get their heavy equipment off. Apparently the British lost most of the armament of the one armored brigade and whatever heavy artillery was on hand. Previously Prime Minister Churchill had said that the Libyan border had been left to the defense of one armored brigade. This sounded as though there were precious little armored equipment left the British in the Near East...
...debarked, equipped with tanks, flame throwers, artillery and all the paraphernalia of attack. A "neutral diplomat" swore that he had, with his own neutral eyes, seen British soldiers step down gangplanks on to Greek soil and march off singing to their billets. The British were said to have landed matériel for five divisions...
Your account of Tuaregs joining Free French forces in their thrusts into southern Libya (TIME, Feb. 10) prompts me to send you the enclosed photograph. While doing anthropological research in Timbuktu, French West Africa, I snapped my native cook perusing TIME (see cut). Part of his ancestry, and the mat on which he sits, are Tuareg; the rest is Songhoi Negro. He awaited the arrival of two-month-old TIME with as much fervor as we and would insist on having all of the pictures explained...
...pound scrap, the Crimson had a meagre 12 to 11 lead, and it was up to heavy weight Tom Rogstad to swing the meet one way or the other. Rogstad was probably the stronger wrestler of the two, but Stenberg of Columbia played for the edge of the mat, and gave Tom no chance to show his superiority...