Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another trial of strength which may not be war, but something even more disastrous for our civilized values and for the human future. Here as well as abroad we should read the signs of the times aright and shake off this malaise of the. spirit which has overcome us. South Africa, awake! World, awake from your slumbers and your dream world of ease, absentmindedness and irresponsibility! That is the call of 1949 to us all. Best wishes will not be enough...
While Hodge struggled to form 200 backbiting parties into some kind of stable government, the Reds built up a loyal, well-trained army of at least 150,000, many of them Korean refugees who had served in the Red Army during the war. In the south, which contains 21 of Korea's 28 million inhabitants, some 60,000 drilled indifferently and swaggered enthusiastically in chopped-down U.S. uniforms...
Will. He heads south over Ontario, reaches Pennsylvania. A fighter plane sneaks up behind Santa and forces him to land. The narrator continues...
...Walk, Don't Run." At Shihkiach-wang, railroad hub on the Peiping-Han-kow line some 175 miles south of Peiping, an American reported perceptible economic progress since, his visit six months earlier. The Communists had started many small industries-weaving shops, flour mills, brick kilns, foundries, machine shops-which are flourishing. He found wealthy merchants still operating. Many women had permanents which they got in reopened beauty shops...
...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...