Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both these beliefs are based on the fact that during the Spanish Civil War, Germany took occasion to install, ostensibly for Dictator Franco, an untold number of huge coastal guns not only at Algeciras and Tarifa on the European side but also at Fort Hacho (Ceuta), Punta Blanca, and other...
This week Peking celebrated the fortieth anniversary of that gruesome outbreak. With intent no less barbaric because it was more subtle, the Japanese marked the occasion by going full-out for the skins of all the foreigners in China except themselves. Instead of using long-swords and rifles, the Japanese...
It was a fighting speech, more powerful and more determined than any he had delivered since the war began. It was a speech of decision, with none of the ambiguities that had marked his words on neutrality. It was eloquent: "On this tenth day of June, 1940, in this university...
More Than 30,000 Lost. I return to the Army. In a long series of very fierce battles, now on this front, now on that, fighting on three fronts at once, battles fought by two or three divisions against an equal or sometimes larger number of the enemy, and fought...
"This honor means the more to me because it comes from an organization of war veterans. The records of your members prove more potently than any words a belief that there are certain principles for which men are willing to fight, and, if occasion demands, give their lives."