Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until recently, Duclos was supporting Thorez against the wing led by old André Marty, who favored a tough, out & out revolutionary line. Duclos saw the handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from...
...Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
...there, in the coal-and iron-laden valleys of South Manchuria, the Chinese Nationalists almost literally had their backs to the Wall. They were not yielding lightly, but Chiang's troops were bending backwards under the weight of the sixth major thrust by the Chinese Communists since...
Defensively, the Badgers were nothing short of superb, blanking the highly geared Yale offense for the first time in 20 consecutive games. Levi Jackson, Ferd Nadherny, and company broke through the stubborn Wisconsin forward wall for a mere 89 yards...
Yale was the victim, defensively, of conservative, smart football. Amazingly early in the fracas, Wisconsin had the weak spots figured, sending most of its plays around end or off tackle and hitting the center of the Eli forward wall only on occasion...