Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watchman, a switchman, a dry goods store owner, two grocers, mechanics and salesmen, a farmer, a sheet metal worker-an average U. S. jury with a national issue in their hands. Theirs was the chance of being first to condemn a kidnapper to death. From Washington, Attorney General Cummings, spearhead of President Roosevelt's anti-crime drive, had sent his Special Assistant Joseph Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice had taken the girl from her bath to a filthy...
...northern spearhead marched Japan's Sixth Infantry (from her balmy, almost tropical island of Kyushu). Wearing mittens, shawls and everything they could put or tie on, the tropical Sixth rushed at 12° below zero upon Chinese who shot first from behind the rocks of rolling foothills, then from behind the crags of higher and higher mountains as they fell back upon Chihfeng...
Niagara of Bombs. Savage Japanese bombing ahead of her advancing troops explained some of their successes, scarcely all. Foreign military attaches were frankly amazed when the middle Japanese spearhead plunged with seeming ease into Chaoyang, the second largest Jehol city, supposed to have been defended by large Chinese forces guarding an "impregnable pass." Swooping down on more than 1,000 Chinese soldiers in the pass, an entire Japanese air squadron loosed a Niagara of thundering bombs. "I think," reported the Japanese squadron leader, "that we just about wiped them...
Japan's southern spearhead, plunging upward from Suichung, was for some reason largely composed of the Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...
Died. John G. ("Paul Revere") Parke, 67, chief engineer of Pittsburgh Steel Co. who in 1889 galloped down Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Valley warning the people of the imminent water wall, half a mile wide, 20 ft. high, hurling a spearhead of trees, houses, machinery, rocks, tangled barbed wire and human bodies toward Johnstown (dead: 2,000); after long illness; in Monessen...