Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
...Bolsheviks in Russia's Government to survive the Great Purge. A war comrade of Stalin's from the days of the civil War, few men had been so closely associated with the Soviet leader. Was the change an individual question, or did it portend a shake-up in the Soviet Government? As a result of the war, the Red Army could become a much greater political power in the Soviet state. As a Defense Commissar, had Voroshilov aspired too far? Stalin, a close student of Machiavelli, dislikes ambition in his official family. Or did Russia need a younger...
China's Soldier. In March 1942, General Stilwell went back to China, plunged immediately into the hopeless task of holding Burma against the Japs. His famed retreat across Burma ("I say we took a hell of a beating") did not shake his faith in the Chinese soldier. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supported Stilwell, at first. So did his great & good friend, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall...
Many thanks to you people for printing the truth about the Army shake-up during the battle of Saipan. We have read many explanations of this situation, which is covered completely in TIME, but your story is the first to express the true picture of the circumstance...
...General de Gaulle's struggle to restore order in France, this little F.F.I, shake-up was symptomatic. It meant that the Paris Maquis, like F.F.I, units elsewhere, were deprived of their police duties. It was a blow to the leftist dream of a People's Army (more than a third of the F.F.I., some 100,000 men, are being absorbed by the French Army...