Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Giap's attack. It was a three-front fight: 1) in the mountainous jungles of the Black River country, where 10,000 Thais, Moroccans and Legionnaires held a 130-mile line against three Viet Minh divisions; 2) in the. Red River valley, where a wedge of French armor, backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops, linked up with French paratroops dropped in the enemy rear; 3) in the Hanoi delta, where Giap had touched off a 40,000-man guerrilla attack to brake French momentum...
...tactics: waves of expendables in sleeveless, padded green jackets shouting "Hochiminh Muon Nam" (Ho Chi Minh lives 1,000 years), throwing themselves on the French wire with bamboo Bangalore torpedoes and blasting a path for later waves. On the Red River front, Communist resistance, which had faded before the armor, was now reappearing in the rear and extended flanks of the French column, but the French drive itself threatened Thai Nguyen, the reputed Red capital, 44 miles north of Hanoi. In the flat, flooded delta, the brunt of guerrilla attack, directed at the Roman Catholic city of Phat Diem...
...dust was settling over the ruin at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt decided that the U.S. Fleet needed a new commander. He chose a man who was tall, straight as the spruce spar of an old ship-of-the-line, and as hard as the chrome-steel armor around his own battleships. His name was Ernest Joseph King. Nobody has ever offered a better explanation for his selection than King himself gave when he arrived in Washington to take over: "When they get into trouble, they send for the sons of bitches...
Election excitement in October made a noticeable dent on the movie box office, according to a Variety poll of 25 key cities, but the popular pictures nonetheless showed "amazing strength." The armor-plate horse opera Ivanhoe (MGM) held a steady lead, but The Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th Century-Fox) was pushing hard from second place. Other winners...
...there are other chinks in the armor of Senator Lodge. A big one is his endorsement of McCarthyism. Either a candidate is smart enough to see the implications of McCarthy, or he isn't. If he does see them, he is faced with the choice of endorsing them or keeping his mouth shut, not to mention active opposition. Senator Lodge is smart enough to see what McCarthyism means. We must read his support of the Wisconsin Senator as plain-vote-getting expediency, nothing else. The same applies to his happy acceptance of Dick Nixon's praise on platforms throughout Massachusetts...