Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I feel this way, I always write poetry...
...112th day of the great airlift, while Russian artillery continued firing into the grey skies near Berlin by way of "target practice," the Western powers had an announcement for Berlin's people. The airlift was doing so well that Western Berlin's food rations would be boosted about 15%, from an average of 1,800 to 2,040 calories a day. That meant more cereal, fat, sugar, and-for the first time since war's end-cheese...
...truest way to measure what the Palestine war had cost thus far was not by its casualties but by its D.P.s. A war in which one side was fighting to make a home for refugees had created some 400,000 new refugees-the homeless and destitute Arabs and Jews of the disputed parts of Palestine...
...since the worst years of the Japanese war had China faced a prospect so bitter. The Communist autumn offensive had overwhelmed the Nationalists in Manchuria; the vital North China corridor was under heavy attack. For the second time in a generation, a great Nationalist retreat was under way. Isolated outposts would now be evacuated and lines shortened to save men and materiel for a long war of attrition...
...formally bound to act together. In 1911, every one of "the old Dominions" (and the mother country) had rejected a proposal binding them to concerted action in defense and foreign relations. Their union rested on like-mindedness, on "kingship and kinship," on a common heritage and a common way of doing things. It rested also-very heavily-on British control of the seas and London's central position in world commerce-of which Lloyd's was a symbol. These had been the central political and economic facts of the preceding century...