Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born (1892) in Coytesville, N J., of Dutch stock. When he was a baby, his family moved to Florida, where his father was a pioneer railroad promoter and financier. He had a healthy, uneventful outdoor childhood, played football as a halfback at West Point (classmates remember him particularly as being "good on the defensive"), was graduated 92nd out of 168 in the star-studded class of 1915, whose roster included names like Ike Eisenhower (class standing: 61) and Omar Bradley (44). In World War I, he went to France as an infantry major. Between wars, he taught infantry tactics...
...floor of Broadway Mansions, Shanghai's tallest apartment building, tenants saw sharp flashes of cannon fire across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers. At one point on the Woosung defense perimeter, Nationalist troops threw back the attackers after a bitter hand-to-hand battle...
South of the city, the Communist vanguard surged on to a point halfway between Shanghai and the refugee Nationalist capital of Canton. More than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...last week the "extra" bells in Tokyo newspaper offices jangled urgently. The best & biggest news since the occupation came clacking over the teletypes from Washington, D.C.: the U.S. had renounced all further reparations claims on Japan. It was the most striking proof the West had yet offered that it had abandoned its postwar policy of keeping Japan on her knees, seriously meant to rebuild Japan's shattered economy...
...news-starved Russian people took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...