Word: tides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. The Communists moved in with impressive speed. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen strategic Nationalist cities. They were driving hard for the rest of free China not yet engulfed in the Red flood...
...Pedley, who lays aside his spectacles when he dons his polo togs, had long ago given up whoopdedo polo. But when things looked darkest, Pedley dribbled the ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...
...opening gong at 8:30 a.m., a reinforced sales force of 200 (normal: 25) was washed aside by the tide of bargain hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...
...Spain, Bishop Herrera of Málaga has been viewed by politicians and conservative fellow prelates with disapproval and alarm. But today, tall, balding Bishop Herrera, 62, who runs a new social school for priests, can feel that the tide, with a little pushing from Rome, may be turning at last. This month the Pope gave permission for a project to establish similar social schools all over Spain...
Thus there are always twelve men (defense and midfield vs attack and midfield) playing at one end of the field, and six men, lined up like so many drooling spaniels, on the midfield stripe waiting for the tide of play to turn...