Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land-based Army & Navy planes made their first coordinated attack with the flyers of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, capping a week of unprecedented assault on the remnant of what was once the Imperial Japanese Navy. Among the Japanese casualties: the battleships Haruna (and no mistake, this time), Hyuga, Na gato...
From the East. Out of the dawn on July 10, his commander of Task Force 38, Vice Admiral John S. ("Jock") McCain, sent off a horde of fighters to strike at the remnant of Japan's home-based air power. McCain's airmen prayed that the Japs would come out and give them another red-letter day like the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" of June...
Tommies in tanks had recaptured the ruins of the Averoff prison which ELAS had used as a fort. After it fell, resistance collapsed. With all but a third of the capital recaptured, reinforced British troops prepared to drive out the remnant of ELAS forces. In driblets ELAS riflemen retreated by winding paths over the hills and melted away into the countryside. Into the streets, behind them, marched British troops and Greek Government Militia, pelted by flowers from shattered windows. Said a perplexed Tommy: "Blimey, I'll never get the hang of these people. First flowers, then bombs, then flowers...
...after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
...college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed. Some had gotten better jobs at Vassar, Wisconsin, Harvard or in Government agencies. Some declared that they were fed-up with the administration's constant kowtowing to the Farm Bureau...