Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bore whole industries, piece by piece, to safety-moved back country to the gorges of the Yangtze. Wu became mayor of Chungking, the new capital. For two years, the city (whose wartime population grew from 200,000 to well over 1,000,000) stolidly endured one Japanese air raid after another...
Night after night, Japanese bombs tore bigger & bigger patches out of the maze of ramshackle houses. Sewage piled up in gutters, disease spread and Chungking rats grew fat and impudent. The air-raid warning system was complicated: in addition to sirens, colored lanterns were hung from poles at night (when they were lit, it meant that the enemy was approaching; when they were suddenly dropped, it meant that the planes were almost over head). But the system worked. Night after night most of Chungking's people trudged to the big caves outside the town where most of them slept...
...chance came in 1948, when he joined the staff of TIME. As a correspondent for TIME & LIFE, he reported the last bitter triumphs of Communism in China, covered guerrilla warfare in Indo-China, went along on a Chinese Nationalist bombing raid from Formosa to Shanghai. When war started in Korea, ex-Marine Fielder volunteered to cover it, left his wife and ten-month-old son behind in Hong Kong. He was aboard the light cruiser Juneau when it shelled Korea's east coast, and filed a notable report-"Last Train from Vladivostok" (TIME, July...
...bitter delaying action, in which he and a handful of other U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to India. He became operations officer of the Tenth Air Force in India and later leader of the Twentieth Air Force's first B-29 raid on Tokyo...
...last week. Then he went on to explain. The U.S., said Harry Truman, was engaged in a police action. A "bunch of bandits" had attacked the Republic of Korea-a government established by the United Nations-and the Security Council had asked U.N. members to suppress this bandit raid. That was what the U.S. was doing. "We hope we have acted in the cause of peace-there is no other reason for the action we have taken," said Truman...