Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were bombing Pyongyang, the Red capital, and other objectives north of the 38th parallel. U.S., British and Australian naval forces, including carriers and cruisers, were committed to action in the Korean theater; U.S. warships shelled shore installations at the Red-seized port of Inchon. Douglas MacArthur ordered the 24th Division, equipped with tanks and artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church...
Battery D. He got to downtown St. Louis just in time to eat, dress, and appear at a ball which opened the 24th reunion of his old World War I outfit, the 35th Division...
...Order of the Garter had been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh, on duty with the British Fleet at Malta. In the midst of the festivities, the party almost broke up when planes from the U.S. carrier Midway started a live-bombing practice raid on a nearby island...
George L. Wrenn's letter in the April 24th issue of the CRIMSON apparently underlines a very important and damning fact about the Student Council elections: that they are almost never conducted legally...
...give the final pat to this neat little colonial comedy, and any schoolboy could guess who he was after three sentences-Rudyard Kipling. This one story, written when Kipling was 44, is the only pure drop of storytelling in the bucket; the literary spigot, which by Kipling's 24th year had already spouted seven fine volumes, began to go rusty when he was still a young man. But one good story by Rudyard Kipling is quite enough to make a book worth having...