Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstration. They pasted on the front fender a sign: "Down with British Imperialism." I stuck my head out and said: "I'm not British." A bespectacled student in a long blue gown said pleasantly: "I'm sorry." Then he and his friends pasted another sign on the rear door. It said: "Down with British Imperialism and the U.S.A...
Still another Communist offensive, directed by General Liu Po-cheng, the "one-eyed dragon," was taking shape in the vital Yangtze Valley. Nationalist troops moved in & out of Hankow daily; the city's mayor, recalling how the Japanese took Hankow by a surprise attack from the rear in 1937, said hopefully: "I think there is no way for the Communists to come into Hankow." It was not even certain that the Communists would...
Next year, his lord teacher Tsao was fighting the notorious Japanese-backed ex-bandit and warlord, Chang Tso-lin; Feng calmly attacked the rear of Tsao's armies, imprisoned Tsao, and, for a while, became China's "strong man." He removed the better part of the Imperial City's ancient treasures after putting out the ly-year-old Boy Emperor Pu Yi. He allied himself with Chang. He also married the secretary of the Peking Y.W.C.A. (his first wife, a peasant, had just died...
Trouble on the Rails. It had hardly begun before it caused a railroad wreck. The second section of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Missourian crashed into the rear of the first section, which was running slowly in heavy snow near Syracuse, Mo. Fourteen people were killed, among them Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Spain, and his wife. Forty-four were injured...
...trio quickly made their way out the rear door, and field to a getaway car located on Church street. At this point the two policemen took note of the suspicious speed of the vehicle, Gould recording the license plate Mass...