Word: armored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the week was out, determined U.S. patrols were ranging north of strongly held defenses, harassing the enemy's efforts to continue his offensive. One bold U.S. armored column-far north of the main lines-was ambushed by angry Chinese who swarmed all over it, trying to destroy the tanks with pole and satchel charges. The U.S. tanks fired on one another with machine-gun bullets, which did not penetrate the armor but killed the Chinese on top. Some of the Reds were blown to bits by their own explosives. When the tanks finally withdrew, they were covered with...
...dusk approached and the Chinese did not let up, Hawkins from his plane ordered the battalion to strip and abandon the two tanks that were still stuck, and start back. As the column headed south, Chinese jumped out of foxholes and attacked the U.S. armor on foot. Some 30 Chinese were killed...
...traditional red "sword line," set into the rug before the front benches to make sure that government and opposition are two full sword lengths apart, may once have had historical justification. But I got the feeling that today's honorable members really need armor, not in front but in back, to protect themselves from the quills of their fellow party members...
...approached the most tender passages in a hard-boiled manner: although technically facile, he seemed suspicious of both sensitivity and real clarity. Thus the episodic character of the music, far from being disguised, was exaggerated to a degree which left the piece all but defenseless. It never had much armor anyhow--which is not surprising, considering that Chopin was only nineteen when he wrote...
Twenty to 30 rounds of high-velocity shells whistled over the ford, toward the marines advancing from the south and the ist Cavalry's tankers. A chow line around the ist Cavalry armor abruptly disappeared as the men climbed in and buttoned up. In the marine area the cry for a medical corpsman was heard, and dirt began to fly from entrenching tools...