Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists were overrunning China like lava. Mukden and all Manchuria were gone-and 60% of China's best troops had gone with them. In the great rust-red plain between Nanking and Suchow, the last government armies in Central China confronted an enemy that had beaten them before. U.S. military experts had given Nanking "ten days to three weeks...
Chiang held nothing back from the Suchow battle. He concentrated his armies east of the city, relying on the fall floods to defend the swampy plain to the north and northwest. He guessed right. The Reds concentrated their attack on the east, and Chiang's men were there to meet the assault of 400,000 Communist troops in one of the greatest battles of China's history...
...blazed with the flash of cannon fire; tracers from the 37-mm. guns on Li's tanks cut red streaks through the blackness as they arched in a slow trajectory like monstrous lighted clay pigeons. Less frequently the huge muzzle flash of 105-mm. guns ballooned from the plain, hung for an instant, then blinked out. After an hour, the barrage slowed down. "Now the infantry," said Li. "Come, we will...
Were the editorial writers doing any enlightening? Said Hutchins: "Look at what you did to the report of the Commission on the Freedom of the Press." Hutchins, who was chairman of the commission (TIME, March 31, 1947), said some editorial writers just plain lied about the report, and had ignored its criticisms...