Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dutch and the Spaniards arrived in Formosa in the 1620s. They fought the head-hunting Formosan aborigines and each other. In 1644 the Dutch captured the Spanish stronghold of La Santissima Trinidad at Keelung, but their victory was short-lived. Formosa was being inundated with South Chinese fleeing before the Manchu invaders of China. In 1661 one refugee, the pirate Koxinga, turned up at Formosa with a fleet and an army of 25,000 men, overwhelmed Formosa's small Dutch garrison and proclaimed himself king of the island. Though he ruled for only a year before his death, Koxinga...
...picture is more than a brilliant exercise in moviemaking techniques; it is also a blistering commentary on Hollywood manners & morals. The film shows Hollywood as a jungle stronghold of anarchic opportunism, where success is the highest end, to be pursued by any means and at any price. It also suggests that the movies have their honest craftsmen and-derisively labeled "the Message Kids"-their idealists...
...army of about 500,000 men who have been licked into top shape by V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen. They concede, however, that the Red Chinese air force of about 300 fighter-bombers and 100 medium bombers might deal crippling blows to ports and industries of the island stronghold...
...defense of Formosa, and the U.S. stake in it, is not purely a military matter. A large, vocal body of U.S. opinion has persistently suggested that the Nationalists are not fit allies for the U.S. The Chinese who are building a stronghold on Formosa today should tell Americans another story. One of the most important of these Chinese is Governor...
...whole of Patton's depleted former front. Walker did it by mining and wiring in depth, plus aggressive patrolling. When the Bulge was erased, Walker was thirsty for action-and he got it. In a roaring campaign he cleaned up the Saar-Moselle triangle, seizing the key German stronghold of Trier, then took a leading part in the Third Army's thrust to the Rhine north of Coblenz and slashing envelopment of the Palatinate...