Word: orients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the Orient, Clarence Gauss never bothered to learn Chinese (at longest a four-year stint...
...these skirmishes, both naval and verbal, indicated that both sides have some pretty heavy plans for the South Pacific. On the Japanese side, the man responsible for plans was the man who had Secretary Knox on the edge of his chair-Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were...
...denied effective military aid by circumstances and neglect, China was in effect notifying the U.S. and Great Britain that the last hour for action had come. And China was using the facts of her desperate plight to pose some grave questions to Washington and London: Will China have to orient her policy with Moscow's alone, rather than with a real United Nations? Must China, in self-preservation, seek some way to end her own war before she is thrown to Japanese conquerors and Chinese puppets? Or can China emerge from the war, strong at last, a powerful member...
...pack on his back, the New Zealand equivalent of twenty dollars in his pocket, the blessings of his family and the jeers of his fellow students. Arriving at the port of Wellington, he was signed on by a U. S. troop transport on its way home from the Orient...
Taking up his turban in defiance, of the Boston "Herald" and cinema actor Sabu, Harish Mahindra '46, Weld Hall's representative from the Orient, yesterday showed that the Yard was the equal of Hollywood...