Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variation from the yell set down by one on-the-spot expert, Harvie Dew of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, who described it: "Woh-who-ey! who-ey! who-ey! Woh-who-ey! who-ey! etc. . . . Sound the first syllable . . . short and low, and the second . . . with a very hish and prolonged note deflecting upon the third syllable...
...Architecture of India, by Harvard Professor Benjamin Rowland, covers 4,000 years of history in 269 pages of text and 190 pages of photographs, touches on everything from India's complex civilization of 2500 B.C. to the fantastic, Buddha-studded temples of 8th-9th century Java...
...company of the 9th Infantry which was ambushed first, at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 25. The men of B company averaged less than a grenade apiece, and some carried as little as 16 rounds of ammunition. All but twelve of the men were without steel helmets. When the Chinese struck, the surprise was complete. B company quickly ran out of ammunition, but the Chinese seemed to have plenty. One U.S. lieutenant covered the retreat of his men by throwing rocks and canned rations, and the company fought with bravery throughout. But 26 hours after the battle began...
...Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart for his alcoholic old ex-schoolteacher (Robert Newton), a private with the Australian 9th Division...
...Hurt!" At 2 a.m., two Chinese companies began attacking U.N. positions on the muddy, jagged slopes of "Little Gibraltar." Mortars and artillery pounded U.N. lines. At 4 a.m., Stanley and twelve other men from the 9th Infantry Regiment were sent crawling up Little Gibraltar, looking for wounded. Halfway up, Stanley and a South Korean soldier ran into two Chinese coming towards them with their hands up, as if to surrender. Suddenly, from a closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both...