Word: siberias
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...months later he was transferred to Chico, Calif, (pop: 5,500) over his protests that it was "Siberia." The bank also wrangled with its intransigent clerk over a $15.12 expense account (the bank eventually paid). Soon Clerk Washer was fired. The NLRB ordered him reinstated...
Only the 60-mile gap around Kweilin stood between the Japs and their immediate strategic objectives in China-a continuous 2,000-mile front and communications system from Siberia to the South China Sea. Chungking, desperately hoping to make Kweilin the Stalingrad of Free China, worked mightily to stave off disaster...
...Eastern Front. Then, like Bela Kun, the future head of Soviet Hungary, and Tibor Szamuely, the future head of Hungary's Red Terror, Josip Broz was captured by the Russians, or deserted to them. It was 1915. He was 19. The Russians packed him off to Omsk, in Siberia...
...President set off a startlingly loud Washington uproar. Nelson's friends -who included a group of the New Deal's most expert hatchet men-called his Presidential mission a "Chinese burial." They charged that the man who was fighting for "the little fellow" was being "sent to Siberia," had been given a "kick in the teeth...
...Soviet Union. The route passes over rugged mountain country where the temperature in winter sometimes drops to 70 below. But the airway is relatively free of the fogs and rain that blanket the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to the Aleutians. And it is the shortest practical route to Siberia and the coast of Asia...