Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to the post-Civil War promise of Northern carpetbaggers to freed slaves: "Forty acres and a mule...
Hankow, on the middle Yangtze, was a city of refuge last week. Into it from newly abandoned mission stations in Honan and. northern Hupeh provinces-by rail, truck, mule cart and often on foot-trekked American missionaries. They felt unable any longer to live and work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached...
...below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...
...Temporary Commission on Korea left for its destination. It faced a mixed reception. Cried the Russian-controlled radio in Northern Korea: "[The commission] covers up ... sinister, aggressive ambitions. . . ." An organization called the "League of Koreans Residing in Japan" attacked the commission in somewhat overheated English. Verbatim excerpts: "Of course we are still feeling our respects for U.N. efforts in each their positions in achieving to establish a complete independent Korea but ... anyhow seeing from the past experience and the present situation there is little hope...
Early, pre-season snows in northern New England and Canada plus poor ski-ing conditions around Cambridge before vacation proved a handicap to the ski team and skidded them into sixth place among ten competitors at the annual intercollegiate meet at Lake Placid over New Years...