Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuing aspect of U.S. military aid to Chiang is MAGIC, the corps of 750 officers & men of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in China. In theory operating under strict orders to remain "neutral," MAGIC has in practice been advising-at the noncombat level-the only military establishment it could reach, the Nationalist army. A fortnight ago, MAGIC's commander, Major General John P. Lucas, with whom Chiang had long been dissatisfied, was relieved by bluff, hearty Major General David G. Barr...
...twisted hinge, as though its occupants had plunged wildly through it in mad haste. On the rooftops were British sentries with Bren guns. Also to be seen were rooftop Jewish guards-young Haganah members; technically illegal, they were unarmed, but they kept arms within hand's reach...
Being in a Cuban prison, sometimes articles about me do not reach my hands until a late date. But I definitely resent your stating that I am a "Belly-Wiggler" and a "HonkyTonk Dancer" [TIME, May 5]. ... Perhaps I haven't worked Carnegie Hall, but I have always taken my dancing seriously and have studied (very hard) the semi-classical dances...
...lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly driven into the river. Grant, off in Savannah, Tenn. at the time, was plainly at fault, but four times during the battle he sent messengers to Wallace, to hurry up replacements. Wallace's men did not reach the battlefield until after dark...
...following day Wallace did well: the defeat became a victory, though a costly one. But he could never live down the fact that it had taken his men six hours to reach a battlefield six miles distant. Some time after the battle, he got a leave of absence to visit Indiana, see the dentist, buy some summer clothes. The governor asked him to make recruiting speeches. He said he would rather be in the field. The governor said, "There is nothing doing there." Thus Lew Wallace learned that he had been relieved of his command...