Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
...escape the Communists' well-executed envelopment, Nationalist troops began to evacuate Nanking. Three days after the Red offensive had begun, they streamed out of the capital, weary and disorganized, along the dry brown roads leading through fields of green vegetables and yellow rape, southward and eastward toward the coastal cities of Shanghai and Hangchow and the rugged mountains of Fukien and Kiangsi...
...most important Communist move was a rapid eastward thrust toward the coast, to cut the Shanghai-Canton railroad and encircle Shanghai itself. Another Red force, farther north, was thrusting toward Hangchow, 121 miles from Shanghai. The capture of Shanghai itself seemed near. Its main defense was a pathetic wooden fence, 35 miles long, fashioned from 10-foot stakes (originally UNRRA lumber). In the Shanghai-Hangchow area, 350,000 Nationalist troops were being pressed in a pocket against...
...morning after the great Communist offensive began. From positions around doomed Nanking, Nationalist artillery still fired an occasional shot toward Communist positions on the Yangtze's north bank. Retreating Nationalist soldiers poured back across the river in tugboats and barges. In the yellow glare of the capital's bare electric street lights, they shuffled toward the railway station. The trains they hoped to take to the south never came. A soldier guarding a ferry building watched the routed men and said: "They have been coming back all night. I don't know what's going...
...Albert Marre, 1G, has correctly pointed out that the income from the opening night of "The Tempest" is a "Peculiarly fitting" medium for inaugurating the lectureship fund in memory of Professor Spencer. Unfortunately, the small donation I am able to send toward this effort is not in proportion to the wealth of pleasure I derived from Professor Spencer's course. I feel certain that other students who took the course will agree that such a memorial provides for us the best opportunity of expressing out deep appreciation of the rate gifts Professor Spencer gave us. Henry S. Williams...