Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divine, thousands of New Yorkers crowded in to get a feeling of the fear and hope and comfort of religion from the Rev. Bryan Green of Birmingham, England. Anglican Preacher Green was providing New York with a sight not seen there since the 1880s-a diocese-wide revival mission under the auspices of the Episcopal Church...
...Double Mission. The machine guns fascinated Chiang first; from his youth in Chekiang Province, he wanted to be a soldier. At China's Paoting Military Academy in 1906, he got high marks, though he was the only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts. The high marks got him a chance to study at a military school in Tokyo. And here, with other young Chinese, he met Sun Yat-sen on the eve of the October 1911 revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Once the revolution began, Chiang hurried...
...Visits to Moscow. The President's way of behaving himself was to end, once & for all, any speculation that he might be thinking of another "Vinson mission" to Moscow. There would be no negotiations with Russia, he said, while Russia blockaded Berlin. He would be happy to talk to Stalin, he added, but only if Stalin came to Washington (highly unlikely...
After returning to Suchow, we boarded a Chinese air force C46 on a mission to air-drop ammunition and hospital supplies to General Huang Po-tao. Nienchuang, Huang's headquarters, nestles close to the smashed Lunghai railway. The village has a heart-shaped double wall and a double moat. The southern section of the town was burning and all nearby villages were heaps of wrecked houses.Trenches webbed out from Nienchuang like some scabrous disease infecting the good earth. All around the village, crumpled parachutes from previous drops sprinkled the brown countryside. As the C46 captain dropped...
...United States State Department paid little attention to the case. Frederick Ayer, security officer of the U.S. Mission to Greece, was detailed to protect Polk's wife while she was being interrogated by the Greek police. He frequently was absent from the questioning sessions and made few other efforts to intervene in the case...