Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier in the week northeast Korea had been put under the command of Major General Edward Almond, who led the U.N. landing at Inchon. Almond, whose X U.S. Corps was no longer needed for a seaborne landing, promptly moved his U.S. 1st Marine Division to Wonsan, thereby freeing for combat duty the R.O.K. troops which had been garrisoning the city. This would put more muscle behind the drive into the northeast...
...general is a devoted family man. His daughter Margaret has married again, to Captain Charles M. Fergusson Jr. Her two boys by her two marriages, Tommy, 7, and Edward Almond, 18 months, are the jay and solace of their grandfather's life. But even in the bosom of his family, the general never forgets he is an infantry soldier...
...last month that he went off to his third war, and to the biggest, most satisfactory job of his career, his wife was shopping in the Tokyo PX. Margaret Almond's security-conscious husband had not told her that it was time to leave fof Operation Chromite. A lieutenant at the PX tipped her off to the news. She rushed home excitedly. Ned was already zipping shut his B-4 bag. As he drove off, he yelled: "Read about it in the papers...
...Paris, President Vincent Aurlol stocked his pantry with almond milk and other dainties to welcome a visitor, thorny, willful Sidi Mohamed Ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco. After a dervish whirl of partygoing, the Sultan doffed his white burnoose, slipped into hunting knickers for a shooting party at Marly-le-Roi where he bagged 76 pheasants, ten hares, two partridges...
With tours in his almond-shaped eyes, Dr. Huey told the dumbfounded editors of the CRIMSON that he no longer feels competent to predict the outcomes of Harvard football games. He sobbed that he has never done so poorly in his life. He has predicted the last six games incorrectly, and has been right only once in his last 12 tries...