Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Can China Do? The Chinese fell back rapidly. Chungking admitted retreat. Tokyo claimed that ten Chinese divisions had been trapped. Busy towns fell one after another. Loyang, where the emperors of the Chou dynasty held court seven centuries before Christ, was ablaze. At any moment the Japanese wedge, if pushed westward, might cut Chungking off from any contact with north China...
This is Jack Belden, veteran of the war in China, of Stilwell's retreat from Burma and Montgomery's desert victory, of the Mareth Line, of Sicily and of Salerno, where he was so badly wounded during the first landings that he spent months in a hospital. It was only last week, still limping, he was able to get off to the wars again...
...Retreat. Frossia found a job. She typed documents about transgressors of the new economic decrees: speculators in food, currency, timber, building material, raw chemicals, leather, steel, the theft of a sockful of rough amethysts in the Urals, the theft of 500 Ib. of raw glycerine. Her superiors lectured her: "The Party aims have been well defined by Comrade Bukharin. . . ." But she could not understand them. "Imperial or Soviet, she thought, we Russians will never change." Anna von Packen said, "Working for them? How can you? . . . You will not stand aloof from them. Therefore you are helping their ghastly revolution...
...regular Friday evening full retreat and review ceremonies last week, ASTP Company D, the Medical Unit at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, witnessed the presentation of awards to the winner and runner-up of the unit's squash racquets tournament. Major J. L. Rosengard, commander of the unit, presented, in behalf of Colonel John K. Howard, a silver cup to the winner, Pfc. David G. Freeman, and a travelling bag to runner-up Pfc. Philip H. Henneman. Major Bernard A. Merriam, commander of ASTP Company B at Harvard, reviewed the unit...
Hanson Baldwin's line at this week's start: "The great retreat in Southern Russia-one of the greatest in history-seems to be coming...