Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most they could hope to delay and fall back, into the vast reaches of south China and onto the island of Formosa for a test stand. But barring a miracle, they had no prospect of stopping the Red tide...
...toward Communist positions on the Yangtze's north bank. Retreating Nationalist soldiers poured back across the river in tugboats and barges. In the yellow glare of the capital's bare electric street lights, they shuffled toward the railway station. The trains they hoped to take to the south never came. A soldier guarding a ferry building watched the routed men and said: "They have been coming back all night. I don't know what's going on, but I'm scared...
...mate were dead. Another hit demolished a rear turret. The Amethyst ran up two white flags in clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With the help of the Amethyst's Chinese mess boy as interpreter, most...
...British, Canadian, and Mexican amateur champion), and lifts weights on the side for his figure, bulged a few of his better muscles for the camera (see cut) in Pinehurst, N.C. Then he whacked out a few of his better shots to add the North-South Amateur crown to his collection, for the second time...
Freshman lacrosse players, led by newly elected Captain Bill Spence, beat down the hard-fighting Governor Dummer squad 7 to 5 yesterday at the Academy's home grounds at South Byfield...