Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama, picked up a burning phosphorus bomb with his bare hands, tossed it out a copilot's open window. Despite his searing burns, Erwin lived to have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
...darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...
...news article headlined "Beaten But Not Bowed Politicos Trumpet Retreat", the CRIMSON is guilty of a highly inaccurate description of the post-election status of Harvard's political clubs. What your correspondent completely neglected was the reascendency of the Liberal Union to its traditional position as Harvard's most influential political action group...
...defeat and anti-labor referenda and elect Truman and Dever, without the undue fanfare and disproportionate publicity that the right and left extremes received. On Nov. 2, the state and nation turned to the "third force," its non-communist left, and the HLU "politicos" neither were "beaten" nor in "retreat", but, on the contrary, quite jubilant and appreciative. . . . Roy Gootenberg...