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...well-received Forth to the Wilderness), "the war struck as a succession of violent but passing storms." Boston and Philadelphia were occupied for only nine months each. The campaigns in the South were savage, but did not begin until 1780. And from the Battle of Monmouth (June 1778) till the beginning of the siege of Yorktown (September 1781), Washington's main army was obliged to fight no major battles...
...round-the-clock operation, Purdue's Memorial Union complex runs twin dance halls, 16 bowling alleys, banquet facilities for 1,500. It has 254 hotel rooms-and grosses $1,743,000 a year. The till fills with regular proceeds and student fees that average about $4 a semester. To handle such business, N.Y.U. last year launched a two-year graduate course in "college union management...
...never realized the strategic implications of Berlin till I studied Robert M. Chapin's educative diagram. A glance at that map tells more than pages of writing...
...Pekin, on the Illinois River. The place had been known as Townsite. When the citizens could not agree on a new name, they asked the wife of a local army major to make the choice. She took a map, traced her finger along between the 40th and 41st parallels till she came to a likely name. It was Peking, China. Translated to Pekin, it calls itself "the Celestial City," sports a Chinese dragon in its parades. The high school football team is dubbed, naturally, "the Chinks...
...first, last and always Jacko is a union man: first at every meeting and the last to go, president of the shop council since the year dot. What's right for the union is right for Jacko. and what's wrong for the union he fights till he sweats till his hat floats...