Word: retook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the token U.S. Air Force in China blasted at Japanese-held objectives, ground forces of the Chinese took two pearls of potentially great price. They pushed the enemy back through Chekiang Province and retook two of the finest military airdromes in China; one at Lishui, only 700 miles from the great naval base at Nagasaki; another at Chuhsien, only a few bomber steps farther. China knew what could be done to Japan from there...
After many a negative, Russia had its first positive victory last week. Russia's best general, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, retook Rostov-on-Don and for the first time made the Germans get their tails up and churn their shanks in the general direction of Berlin...
...Last week the Chinese retook Foochow. The Japanese could have held it - but they were concentrating all available for more spectacular adventures on the road to glory (see p. 23). The Chinese nevertheless thought the achievement brilliant. It was the first time since the Japanese had sealed the south China coast almost airtight last spring (TIME, May 5) that the Chinese had fought their way into possession of a major seaport...
...Hellfire Pass, out of Salûm, all the way to Fort Capuzzo, across the border in Libya. They took 500 German prisoners, but they knew they could not follow through. Sir Archibald was not quite ready. They in turn turned around. The Germans counter-counter-counter-attacked and retook Salûm and the pass which had earned its nickname...
...back, threw them out of the town. As fast as the Germans landed parachute troops on the Joux fortress, the Legionnaires picked them off. By night they foraged the countryside for barbed wire and cattle, swearing they would not surrender unless they got hungry. The Germans came back and retook Bellegarde, but found its bridges all dynamited, further progress dangerous under the fortress guns...