Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
...leader of the Yankee-American Action movement, a group exposed several years ago when it was holding meetings in PBH, he was arraigned in court yesterday morning, when the trial, the first of its kind in this country, was supposed to open...
Destination Unknown? Where he was headed is still a layman's mystery, but the course of the battle indicated generally what he had in mind. In the first day of his movement south from his concentration area it looked as if he might be headed for a land attack on Port Moresby, which he had not been able to reduce by air raiding. But as he plowed south, it became clear that he was after a more important target. He was headed either for the northeast coast of Australia, or for the strategic prize of New Caledonia...
Like the unbreakable clergy of their country, they have earned a conspicuous place in the anti-Nazi Book of Martyrs. Three months later the fight began in earnest. Quisling ordered all pupils between ten and 16 to join the Nazi Youth Movement, all teachers to join the Laerersamband...
...That the movement which De Gaulle leads is purely a political venture was highly disputed by Brunschwig, "We are nothing but a group of men, Frenchmen, trying to keep up the fight. France has lost a battle...