Word: standing
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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...
...hand, massed for the assault across the river, lay the Communist armies. The Amethyst, with a 17-ft. Union Jack painted on each side of her grey steel hull, plowed the yellow-silted waters with assurance, a frail symbol of waning Western power in China. The Amethyst was to stand by the Chinese capital to protect British citizens. She never made...
...Year Course? How soon, if at all, might Japan's re-education come to a focus? "To leave something sound behind," said one American officer, "will take us another ten years-if the U.S. taxpayer can stand it," Other Americans thought two or three years might be enough for a start. Whatever the period, most education officers agreed that with Communism on the march in Asia, the U.S. has little choice but to continue its schoolmaster's task in Japan...
...Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
...purse, one male added, has been attractive enough to lure a field of 15 to the starting gate. Only the weather man can stand in the way of this morning's classic, for the charge down the Wellesley hills is never run in the rain...