Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berkhamsted (accent on the Berk), about 26 miles northwest of London. Berkhamsted's chief distinction, then as now, was the unstylish but solid boys' public school which bears the' name of the town. Graham's father, Charles Henry Greene, had left Oxford in the 80s intending to be a lawyer. He came to Berkhamsted to teach for one term, and stayed at the school 38 years, the last 17 as headmaster. All six Greene children were born in Berkhamsted; Graham was the fourth. He hated the town, but not as much as he hated the school...
...Meteor jets, bored through rain to hit Red positions, supply dumps and North Korean highways suddenly busy with increased traffic to and from Communist front lines. They ran into Russian-built MIGs for the first time since late July, but the Red pilots concentrated on the slower F-80s, damaging one, and ducked the whistling F-86s and Meteors. All along the front the fighting men had their eyes on Kaesong-and their fingers on their triggers...
...80s, Albert Coombs Barnes came out of his South Philadelphia corner fighting.* A poor boy, he worked his way through high school, paid his way through the University of Pennsylvania medical school by playing semi-pro baseball, helped pay for graduate work at the University of Heidelberg by singing in a German beer garden...
...hectic existence ever since a state official first presented her to Amherst College in 1857.* From the first, Amherst men heaped indignities upon her, painting stockings on her shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...
While the fast jets flew top cover, to ward off enemy air interference, the F-80s attacked the Sinuiju ack-ack positions and put most of them out of business. (The Americans could do nothing, however, about flak from across the river.) With bombs, rockets, machine guns and napalm, the "props" (propeller-driven planes) smashed field installations, set barracks afire. Only 15 planes were claimed as destroyed on the ground, but Lieut. General Earle Partridge of the Fifth Air Force said: "I am sure this attack has reduced considerably their immediate capability of striking at U.N. forces from Korean bases...