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...three-pronged drive. One of his columns swung west of the highway, knifed in a sweeping end run to the railroad and highway north of Kumchon to cut the main Communist supply line. The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade leapfrogged U.S. troops, sliced toward Kumchon in a wide northeast arc. The main body of the 1st Cavalry Division continued to slog up the Kumchon highway behind Patton tanks...
...long run, probably nothing of the Asian mainland could be held against Communism were it not for the wide arc of island groups swinging from Japan down to Australia, which offers more or less solid bases for U.S. power. The arc's northern anchor and firmest U.S. base is Japan; to it some famous real estate (Okinawa, Guam, etc.), provides secure stepping stones across the Pacific. Far more precarious are the chain's three other links...
...first Pirate to bat in the seventh. Maglie got two fast strikes past him, then fed him a low inside curve, "a pitch I had been getting Bell out with before." Bell fell away from the ball, swinging as he stepped back. He struck it on a looping arc toward the right-field foul pole, 257 ft. away. The ball landed low and inches fair for a home run, the shortest (by 40 ft.) possible homer in any National League park. Though Maglie lost his chance at Hubbell's record, by an inning and a third, the Giants...
...effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan of Arc...
...proven brood mares (like Astronomie). He has also tried some daring experiments in inbreeding. One was to mate a full brother and sister. The result was Coronation, one of the meanest-tempered horses ever to kick a groom, but winner of last year's Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe...