Word: reopen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great experiment is about to begin. Last week the Aachen presses were printing the first of 20,000 new textbooks. Next month, the United Nations will take their momentous first step in the re-education of Nazi Germany: under the supervision of U.S. Army military government officers, classes will reopen for first-to-fourth-grade students...
...campaign to reopen a road to China through northern Burma, "Vinegar Joe," at 59, proved himself a crack field commander, a masterly tactician-and also a driving, red-tape-be-damned anti-diplomat. His men, Chinese and American, saw him frequently from their jungle foxholes. He jeeped across the tortuous terrain indefatigably, injected his high-octane personality into every advance...
Whatever the reason, Democrats were quick to capitalize when 18 papers, including the Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Times, Manhattan's Post and PM offered both parties space to continue their raucous ruckus. The Democrats accepted with loud alacrity; the Republicans said they had not decided whether to reopen the battle...
There was a great, nostalgic stirring in Paris last week as veteran bureau men of the U.S. press moved happily back into their old offices. Some doubt remained about how many offices would be allowed to reopen, how many correspondents allowed to remain. But newsmen, mostly constitutional sentimentalists, were carried away for the moment by the loyalty of their old French friends and employes...
...weary Chinese troops wrenched the last stubborn defender from the railhead village of Myitkyina. Thus fell the last Japanese stronghold in north Burma. Now Stilwell had only to hold off the Japs and bulldoze through 70 miles of jungle and mountain to complete his project for 1944-to reopen a road from India supply bases to China...