Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...positions. One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients. The Red generals Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng were trying to reinforce their badly mauled forces; the Communist supply lines from the north were long, and open to air attack in coverless terrain...
...were met on the open road by a huge, red-cheeked adjutant who swung down from a truck loaded with heavily armed soldiers. He would escort us to the command post of Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...Chinese air force Mustang, humming along in the fading twilight, nosed over and swooped down on a village three mile, east. A few seconds later we heard the sharp chatter of machine guns. "That village is my objective tonight," said Li. "When the sun is down my artillery will open up and then the infantry will move...
Coach Bill Barclay's varsity basketball team doesn't open until Saturday, but if the Crimson had to play a game in the Blockhouse tonight, here's the way it would line...
...keep its doors open, the repertory group must average 500 customers each performance which shouldn't be too difficult with a price range of 60 cents to $2.70--less than that asked for some first-run movies. But at the time of writing, the Copley will be dark after their third production (which is to be Mr. Savory's "George and Margaret") unless business picks...