Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hsueh Yo, commander in chief of the Ninth War Area and Governor of Hunan, the situation looked grim. The Japanese had crushing superiority in planes, artillery and mechanized equipment; they might have up to 100,000 men. The valley of the Hsiang River gave them a natural avenue of approach to his capital. A few crosswise streams and low hills were his only terrain advantages. General Hsueh studied the map, pondered. He had let the Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government divisions then...
...membership lined up behind its executive committee in declaring that "the goal of all persons wishing to preserve democracy . . . must be the military defeat of Hitler." Plans were made to implement this resolution by work with the USO and and the ROTC, forums, a Dramatic Committee, and committee to approach other groups like the Liberal Union on the question of cooperation...
That there would be fairly widespread undergraduate approval of the new requirement is indicated by the number of voluntary theses written for Ec 1 where the course thesis is optional. And when students ask for more work which the faculty unanimously feels they need, the usual Harvard departmental approach of ten years of discussion before ten minutes of action might be slightly accelerated...
...what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. ... As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide...
With the welcome approach of dawn planes cease to come in from Germany. The enemy squadrons--what is left of them--those that are not buried in the fields around the city--fly off, knowing well enough that a hot reception awaits them on the East, even over France where our fighters will follow them...