Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell and were in existence when Wedemeyer arrived. But Wedemeyer welded them into a cohesive whole. Seldom had the traditional friendship...
...which cobwebbed Norway. (He corresponded regularly with Bishop Gustaf Aulen in Sweden, signing his letters "Dr. Kattman" and discussing religious subjects in medical language.) Exactly three years from the day he was interned, Bishop Berggrav escaped with the aid of his chief guard (TIME, May 7). He boarded a train for Oslo, got off a few stations before the city, was met by Swedish Consul Leif Öhrvall. The consul drove Berggrav (this time hiding behind a false mustache) directly through Oslo to a hiding place. Next day the church underground sent him a detailed report of the profane rage...
Damages. In Washington, the House of Representatives reviewed the matter of an unidentified G.I. who tossed an egg out of a troop-train window, recommended that $4,339.20 damages be paid to Michael C. Donatell of Tintah, Minn., who happened to get smacked in the eye with...
...astute Prince Saionji, who promoted a Japanese version of parliamentarianism and constitutional monarchy. In 1921, with their support, Crown Prince Hirohito decided to go abroad. Never before had an imperial Heir Apparent left the Land of the Gods. Shinto jingoists threatened to fling themselves in fanatic immolation under the train that bore the Crown Prince to his ship. But Hirohito was not deterred, and this 20th Century form of hara-kiri did not take place...
...complete break in the spinal cord paralyzes all the body from the break down. Doctors have found no way to splice the cord together or revive paralyzed organs. But they can condition some of the organs to function automatically, and they can train a man, with the help of steel braces such as Franklin Roosevelt wore, to stand on his paralyzed legs...