Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most powerful single force toward Reason during 1948 is ... who but Eleanor Roosevelt...
...great, bloody battle around Suchow had produced a familiar pattern. Fast-moving Communist columns had swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...
...pilot pointed toward four olive drab Chinese air force transports across the field. "Looks as if the Chinese air force has just about pulled out," he said. "What are we doing here?" "What are we usually doing?" snorted another pilot. A short, young Chinese chief mechanic broke in: "You take me back to Nanking tonight, huh? I don't want to make no hero...
Within half an hour MacWilliams was winging south toward Nanking. There he waited nearly four hours for gasoline. He ate a meal of rice and meat stew scooped out of a big pot in the chow tent, and at regular intervals argued with the ground crewmen to get going on gassing. By noon he was on his way back to Suchow with another load of rice...
...Relax. It was 5 in the afternoon before MacWilliams had hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only...