Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rundstedt also attacked, drove desperately and skillfully at Monschau, at the northeast corner of Luxembourg, and at two points farther south, not far from the Moselle. First Army headquarters declared that some penetrations were "sealed off" (a familiar cliché in German communiques), but the enemy slid away from the seal-offs, advanced alongside. Prisoners, of whom the First seized more than a thousand the first day, said they had been told they would be "in Paris by Christmas.'' Some Germans were so inflamed with savagery by the switch from retreat to attack that they murdered U.S. prisoners...
...through a convulsive social revolution. Since 1937, almost singlehanded, she had been holding off the Japanese invaders from without. At the same time she had held off the Communists from within. To win against overwhelming Japanese odds, she had retreated from Peiping, from Shanghai, from Nanking, from Canton. To seal off the Communists, she had maintained a blockade against Yenan. Time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had reasoned, would give his Allies a chance to come to China's aid. So he had traded space for time. But after seven years of unflagging resistance, tired China was running short...
Almost as disturbing to Spain's pudgy dictator were two lines in the London Daily Express, organ of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's great friend (and Lord Privy Seal) Lord Beaverbrook: "If Britain is wise she will allow the Spanish situation to evolve without active interference on her part. By so doing Britain will be able to take any advantage that may be offered by a change without assuming responsibility for its defects, its crimes or even its continued existence...
With a seven percent increase in contributions needed in order to meet the quota, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association will open its annual Christmas Seal drive at Harvard on November 27, it was announced yesterday by Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary...
This year's design pictures a postman in commemoration of the Danish mail clerk who conceived the Christmas Seal idea in 1903. Each student will receive an envelope of seals November 27, payment for which will be on a voluntary basis...