Word: reopen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, tardily deciding to reopen the wounds to their feelings, asserted next day that the gendarmes had been mauled by the devil dogs-beaten about the hips and legs with rifle butts, struck in the face, so that they were cut inside their mouths. Colonel Peck, a leatherneck in the classic tradition, stood his ground and flatly said...
...time gained enabled the Gravelines water line to be flooded and held by French troops. Thus the port of Dunkirk was held open. When it was found impossible for the Armies of the north to reopen their communications through Amiens with the main French Armies, only one choice remained. It seemed, indeed, a forlorn hope. The Belgian and French Armies were almost surrounded. Their sole line of retreat was to a single port and its neighboring beaches. They were pressed on every side by heavy attacks and were far outnumbered...
...streets. Said a worried London welfare officer: "Some children in the East End are going to bed at midnight and rising at noon. One magistrate has commented to me that we are encouraging a generation of Artful Dodgers." By last week the Board of Education agreed to reopen city schools as fast as bomb shelters could be built for them...
...year high of $165 a flask (wrought-iron bottle containing 76 Ibs.), up from $84 prewar. Last week's average was only $5 under the best week in September. Marginal producers on the West Coast paid more attention to the second thought than the first, began to reopen long-idle mines...
Japan's Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura broke the news first to U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, later to diplomats of other nations: Japan would reopen the Yangtze River to foreign trade...