Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points on which I was jailed by the Japanese police last year was a story on the use of gas by their troops at the first battle of Changsha [1939]. The Japanese were trapped and, in their haste to retreat, used some gas, but buried most of the cylinders, which the Chinese captured...
...Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs the gamut of shoddy ruses, noble renunciations, comic duels, gloomy drunks...
...could convince Japan that her desire to cut the Burma Road would be met by overwhelming force, the Japanese, who regard politics as "the art of the possible," might retreat. If not, an unconvinced Japan was likely to decide that the art of the possible called...
...retreat one more step is a crime none shall forgive. Stop the enemy. Beat him out of his positions. This is an order which is not to be broken...
...possible fall of Moscow, while having an obvious effect on the morale of both nations, would help Hitler concretely only in affording him winter quarters for his troops." Professor Karpovich asserted. "In this case, the Sovlet army would in all probility retreat to the Volga, the next natural boundary, where it could hold out at least through the winter...