Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a Walk. West of Chunchon, the Chinese aimed a force of 25,000 men down the Pukhan River valley toward the confluence of the Pukhan and the Han. If successful, this assault would have been a serious flanking threat to Seoul. It was beaten off. South Koreans, fighting well on this front, killed 684 (counted) Reds with bayonets and knives...
...Merwin '50 of the Marine Corps about two weeks ago. He's a platoon leader out here and has been on the front almost continuously for a couple of months. Has the most dangerous job there is, I guess. Before I know he was here, I witnessed a Marine assault on hill under fire and wrote a piece on it. Later, I found that he had led that assault...
...General Van Fleet, who had taken over command of the Eighth Army only two weeks before, announced his bold decision to defend Seoul. Said he last week: "[We] welcome the opportunity to destroy the Communist army north of the Han." At night, as the Reds massed for their assault on Seoul, allied night-flying planes spotted no fewer than 3,000 enemy trucks driving south with their lights on, smashed...
Water-Borne Assault. Soon the whole 7th Regiment was in the fight. The sodden weather barred air support. Colonel Harris' most useful field pieces - 105-mm. howitzers-could not get up the muddy road. A bulldozer at work widening the road for six-by-six trucks got stuck, which meant that ammunition had to come up by jeep. Colonel Harris decided to launch an amphibious assault...
...samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...