Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years the Japanese had been bombing China from the coast. Their bombs had crunched through the masonry of every major provincial capital in Free China. They had laughed at the ineffectual popping of Chungking's worn anti-aircraft guns, had shot down fledglings of the Chinese Air Force like wounded ducks...
...Moscow's snow-clad streets celebrating infantrymen in fleece-lined leather coats and yellow fur hoods, provincial troops in worn quilted jackets and spiked woolen forage caps, Cossack officers in capes, spurred knee boots and high astrakhans would not reason with their joy. In the street, a grinning, drink-happy young man suddenly seized Tlinesman Sulzberger by the arm, exclaimed in joy and wonderment: "It is Moscow! Here we are in Moscow...
...raids last week they could hear the roll of artillery, the rattling patter of rifles and machine guns from across the narrow waters. As they watched the hills they hoped beyond any expression in stiff British communiqués that soon Chinese troops might be coming over the weather-worn humps on the horizon to raise the Japanese siege. Striking from behind the ridge of hills where for three years they had lined the colony's border, Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese presented...
...students will take part in such tasks as protection of University property, the roping off of damaged areas, control of crowds, and the suppression of panie. Since they have not had the specialized training in ARP worn necessary to take on air wardens' duties, Mil Set men will be used by the University more as an unofficial police force...
This suspicion is all the more lively when their suggestions are interlarded with glaring mis-representation, name-calling, outrageous distortion, and time-worn psychological tricks of an Axis...