Word: distant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...Distant cousin of Manhattan Importer Alfred Kohlberg, vigorous, supporter of Chiang Kai-shek...
Russia partially compensates for its lack of military mobility by control of the Communist Party throughout the world. The party carries the Red offensive into distant lands, dupes other peoples into fighting Russia's battles and ties up (as in Korea and Indo-China) the armed forces of the West. The Communist Party is the most effective substitute for sea power the world has ever seen...
...edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne general himself (played by Robert Barrat) rolls into sight to accept...
...later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...