Crossword clues for burma
burma
- Rangoon's place
- Rangoon is its capital, to the U.S
- Myanmar's old name
- Myanmar alias
- __ Road: WWII supply route to China
- U Thant's homeland
- U Thant's birthplace
- U Nu's country
- Subject of many a Human Rights Watch story
- Southeast Asian nation also known as Myanmar
- Republic on the Bay of Bengal, formerly
- Republic on the Bay of Bengal
- Other name for Myanmar
- One end of the railway in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
- Neighbor of Siam, on some old maps
- Myanmar's sometime name
- Myanmar, by another name
- Myanmar, before 1989
- Myanmar, before
- Myanmar, at one time
- Myanmar, as it's also known
- Mandalay's land
- Japanese conquest of 1942
- Former name of the country now called Myanmar
- Country on Bay of Bengal
- Country officially renamed in 1989
- Bay of Bengal country, once
- Another name for Myanmar
- Aka Myanmar
- ___ Road (WWII supply route)
- ___ Railway, backdrop of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
- Part of W.W. II's Pacific theater
- Name on old Asian maps
- Myanmar, formerly
- Myanmar, once
- ___ Road (W.W. II supply route)
- "The Bridge on the River Kwai" locale
- Japanese W.W. II conquest
- Old roadside advertiser
- A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
- Japanese conquest of W.W. II
- Myanmar's former name
- Tuptim's land
- Neighbor of Tibet
- Rangoon's country
- Where Rangoon is
- ___ Road of W.W. II fame
- Mandalay locale
- Asian country
- Where Mandalay is
- A state once brought about by morning massage
- Southeast Asian country
- SE Asian country
- Northerly Polish mother country, as was
- Former name of Myanmar
- Rumba dancing in what is now Myanmar
- Asian nation
- Rangoon locale
- Siam neighbor
- Rangoon's land
- Mission of ___
- Thailand neighbor, once
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Burmese people's self-designation; see Myanmar. Related: Burman.
Wikipedia
Burma is a 2014 Tamil crime thriller directed by Dharani Dharan and produced by Sudharshan Vembutty under the banner Square Stone Films. It features Michael Thangadurai and Reshmi Menon in the lead roles, while Sampath Raj, Atul Kulkarni, Karthik Sabesh and Madhu Raghuram play supporting roles. The music was scored by Sudharshan M Kumar, while cinematography and editing were handled by Yuva and Vivek Harshan. The film released on 12 September 2014.
Usage examples of "burma".
Y-force in Burma unless the Allies took the Andaman Islands or Rangoon or Moulmein to cut off the Japanese rear.
Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.
Brahmaputra delta and the green hills of Assam and up over the dark mountain ridges of Burma into Lashio.
On the south from Burma to Kashmir, where the political border joins India, Bhutan and Nepal, there are still populations speaking Tibetan and following one or other of the Lamaist sects.
When they walked in on him, Hazelwood had adopted a typical Churchillian posture, gazing across the river at the Houses of Parliament, hands clasped behind him, a Burma cheroot in one corner of his mouth.
There never has been a moment, there never could have been a moment, when Great Britain or the British Empire, single-handed, could fight Germany and Italy, could wage the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the Battle of the Middle East, and at the same time stand thoroughly prepared in Burma, the Malay peninsula, and generally in the Far East, against the impact of a vast military empire like Japan, with more than seventy mobile divisions, the third Navy in the world, a great Air Force, and the thrust of eighty or ninety millions of hardy, warlike Asiatics.
In 1961, on his last day in office, Eisenhower told President-elect Kennedy that if Laos were to fall to communism, it would be only a matter of time before South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma fell too.
Caufield, in her work, In The Rainforest, tells of the Lawa living in the rainforest of northern Thailand bordering Burma.
Their main base was at Imphal about 200 miles south of Ledo in the province of Manipur on the Burma border.
Japanese field generals and the Burma Area Command and Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo had been at odds whether to attempt the invasion of India, if only as far as Manipur and Assam, in order to wipe out the base of any possible Allied return.
They denied that it was a diversion from OVERLORD or that ANVIL needed its landing craft, and insisted that nonfulfillment would allow the Generalissimo to withhold the Y-force, thus causing the failure of the Burma campaign.
Stilwell certainly lacked the iron control over his feelings that characterized Marshall but the underlying source of the poison was his belief that both British and Chinese had been cowardly in the first Burma campaign and had devoted their energies to nonperformance in Burma ever since.
Except the big chief at headquarters, you are the only person in England, I hope, who knows that Nayland Smith has quitted Burma.
A lot of blokes were going to go to Thailand and to see the Burma railway.
In this Sino-Tibetan frontier area run the upper reaches of the great rivers of eastern Asia, the Huanghe or Yellow River, the Yangtse, the Salween and the Mekong, which flow along valleys running more or less north-south and reach the sea through China, Burma and Vietnam.