Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the war began going against the Japanese, Negishi's bubble burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...
After four years of Soviet captivity, shabby, 61-year-old Erika Raeder, wife of Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (now serving a life term for war crimes), turned up in Berlin and unburdened herself to newsmen. The enigmatic Russians had fed her caviar in Moscow, starved her in Minsk, kept her peeling potatoes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Then, just as unaccountably, they...
...vote, San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House trustees decided to eat their harsh words banning Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad from an autumn engagement. Without her, it seemed, the box-office outlook was too dark. In Salzburg, where she was still as popular as in prewar days, Flagstad magnanimously announced: "I will accept the invitation . . . despite the incident...
...poignant little fräulein of a song, German-born Lilli Marlene had Axis and Allied troops alike seething and sighing over her during World War...