Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While it was stated that the British were destroying everything in the path of their retreat, facts told a different story. To give one instance, it was announced they destroyed everything at Kuantan Airdrome on the east coast. Two days later the R.A.F. was sent over to bomb the undamaged hangars and the Japanese aircraft already using the field...
Unless the Crimson basketball team spirit springs out of its hibernation and shows up with its pre-exam punch in tonight's contest with Columbia, it might as well burrow into its retreat for the rest of the season, taking with it one of the saddest basketball records in the recent history of the game at Harvard...
...fall of Singapore will over-shadow everything else so far in the war except perhaps the British retreat at Dunkirk after the fall of France," said G. Nye Steiger, visiting lecturer of Far Eastern History and professor of History at Simmons College...
...Germans were still engaged in "strategic retreat" in Russia, they were strangely unstrategic about it last week. They allowed the Russians to drive a huge wedge between their Leningrad and Moscow fronts which, if it could be maintained and extended, might prove to be a major strategic defeat for the Germans...
...their heavy winter boots the citizens of Moscow trudged across Red Square, past Lenin's tomb. Whether or not Lenin's remains were still in it, the tomb was still a symbol. Other citizens, remembering other days, smiled at a large painting of Napoleon's 1812 retreat hung in a subway station...