Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rest for Wang meant a transfer from combat to a staff job (under surveillance) back in the hills. The commissar called on him regularly. But Wang's heart remained troubled. "I must think more," he said. "Fighting Japs I suffered much and gave my blood without regret. I could do so because my heart took part in the struggle. Now my heart forbids." When Kalgan fell, Wang's weary heart had not changed. As his unit prepared to retire into the mountains, he straggled behind and sent a message of surrender. A Government detachment picked Wang...
...Brothers, was, is, and will be the OPA rate. While that government agency was gasping its dying breath this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...
This drumhead interpretation of policy came only a few hours after another British officer, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker, left Jerusalem on a "transfer" home. Barker, after the King David Hotel bombing, had disqualified himself with a vicious letter to division commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...
...York's LaGuardia Field, striking pilots kept tabs from an automobile parked near the runway; but a picket line surrounded maintenance shops in Kansas City. The Indian delegation to the U.N. Assembly was forced to debark from a T.W.A. plane at Shannon, Eire, and transfer to the unstruck American Overseas Airline. But most U.S. passengers, accustomed to the uncertainties of air travel, took the strike in stride, or the train instead...
Further shifts in the reserve shelves already considered by library officials in- include the transfer of course books for History 5, History 62, and Philosophy 1 from Widener to Boylston as circumstances may require, these classes being the largest after the "Big Three...