Word: ramparts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition to several Red cities (notably Chengteh ana Changchun) they had cleared many miles of economically vital North China railroads...
...Opium! Behind the rampart, the Marxists of Ivry truculently cried: "We want no opium for the people! Down with the Church!" Before the rampart, young acolytes swung their censers, priests muttered Ave Marias, the Virgin serenely waited. Suddenly a handful of police appeared, led the Virgin to a safe night's rest in the Church of Ivry...
...drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. . . . No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around...
German Europe's long darkness had begun to lift. Last week, from Partisan Yugoslavia, TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich sent an account of everyday life behind the German rampart...
...Christmas, only ten days after the landing at Arawe (TIME, Dec. 27), General Douglas MacArthur sent forth his second invasion fleet to New Britain, Jap rampart island in the Southwest Pacific. Arawe had been an Army party; there had been thin opposition, about 30 U.S. dead. The new landing was a bigger show, with the Navy as star performer for the first time in General MacArthur's Southwest Pacific theater...