Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complained a German reporter, "in quantities surpassing those used in any other war or campaign and in a manner that can be envisaged only by brutal minds, long trained to insidious methods of warfare." The Germans, despite their long training in techniques more or less insidious, were shocked into retreat...
...Leningrad's defenders digging trenches. Said he: "I am also writing my seventh symphony. It will attempt to depict the Battle of Leningrad and tell the story of the city's Home Guards." Last great Russian battle piece: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...
...Governor's retreat in Puerto Rico's mountains, Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell last week pondered whether to be or not to be Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. On the university's palmy campus, its hot-tempered students got into a stew over the same question...
...mountain retreat, Tugwell said he was surprised and shocked. But he got a reprieve on carrying out his promise to resign. Tugwell supporters, claiming fraud in the vote, got the student body to agree to another meeting, another vote...
...break came at 12 for lunch and then three more hours of firing. About once a week an inspection of tents, uniforms, boards, haircuts, shoes, and belt buckles was conducted with demerits and K.P. for all breaches of military cleanliness. Retreat at 5 and supper at 5:30 ended the official...