Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French troops, the Serbians and Rumanians found themselves penned up between the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians on one side and Bulgarians and Turks on the other. The Germans under Falkenhayn and Mackensen had little difficulty in storming the passes in the Transylvanian Alps and the Iron Gate to overrun Rumania. They might try it again...
...Phoebe Titus' friends compared her to a pack rat, another to Joan of Arc. Neither would have been surprised had she sold the territory short when the Federal troops were withdrawn at the Civil War's outbreak, leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin...
...stirred the Chinese to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dynasty. He was just the son of a South China wine merchant, who had been trained in the Military Academy at Tokyo, and later became president of the Whampoa Military School in Canton. When Dr. Sun died in 1925, China was overrun by warlords. It took a hardheaded soldier like Chiang to command the loyalty of the Kuomintang. Hardheaded men in Chinese politics are not stubborn idealists -against odds they normally quit or sell...
...save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first few days or weeks of war to overrun much Czech territory where, enraged by the massacre of Sudetens, the Germans would massacre many more Czechs. Meanwhile, the German "Siegfried Line," on the French border, although ultimately it might be broken, would have held, while numberless great cities on both sides were bombed...
...balancing the credit side of the ledger of cities taken, provinces overrun, is the fact that Japanese control in the conquered territory is limited to rail-lines, roadways. Her battle front, supplied by overstretched, underprotected communi cation lines, is strung out three times as long as the Western Front during the World War. Behind these front lines Chinese guerrillas range with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked...