Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese people, and for the intelligence and sensitivity of its plot and dialogue. A new China, a bold, indomitable China, is rising out of the blood and sweat of battle. The new China is intent on wiping ignorance from its shores. "Dragan Seed" portrays the beginnings of the movement in a sympathetic, inspiring...
...Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with the left flank free for unlimited movement...
Correspondent Montgomery may have underestimated the difficulty of maintaining an underground movement without support from outside. But he had pointed up one possibility: all the shooting of this war may not end abruptly on one happy Armistice Day when people can hang out flags and dance in the streets...
...African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic. But a few of the tougher-minded among them banked on a political fact: General Charles de Gaulle, who at last report was in Cherbourg, was no longer the head of an overseas resistance movement, but the leader of a great nation. Part of his job was to heal as well as to purge...
...Beard went off to a spacious old colonial house near New Milford, Conn., settled down to running a dairy farm and remaking the American mind. Each of them turned out individual books. Friendly, tough-minded Mary Beard brought labor into scholarly history (A Short History of the American Labor Movement) at a time (1920) when the subject belonged almost exclusively to pamphleteers. She wrote of women {Woman's Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature of a national institution...