Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral was also asked about the effect of the Manipur fighting on air delivery of supplies "over the Hump" to China and Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, neither question nor answer came through the rigid British censorship. From outside India the conclusion seemed to be that, no matter how successfully the Manipur battle had been fought, both the Chinese Army and Chennault had suffered from the North Burma campaign...
...stricken island. Wainwright walked towards his conquerors (reported Nichi Nichi's correspondent), carrying a white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground." When the victorious Japanese commander entered the room, "Wainwright and his aides stood up at rigid attention and saluted." Wainwright said that "he had come to talk surrender." It was Corregidor...
General Charles de Gaulle, a man of rigid dissatisfaction, indicated last week that he was still dissatisfied with "arrangements" between France and her allies. Particularly, Cordell Hull's recent assurances (TIME. April 17) left much to be desired...
...letting reports of the speech through Chungking's rigid censorship, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government showed: 1) that it was not insensitive to the opinion of its allies; 2) that, all its faults notwithstanding, it was not nearly so bad as some of the critics seemed to think...
...Jaygee Kerr's eyes are going bad on him, at least bad enough to keep him out of the line. But the Navy is his career, and with his exemplary record it's a simple matter to transfer over to Supply, where the physical requirements are not quite so rigid...