Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hitting the North Korean power sites in June, and the North Korean officer-candidate school last fortnight, General Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo, looking around for more assault points, decided on the ripening military targets in and around Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. These included warehouses crammed with ammunition and other war gear, telephone, rubber and ammunition factories, railroad repair shops and marshaling yards, a motor pool, a Chinese communications center, a troop replacement area. Three weeks ago allied reconnaissance planes began dropping leaflets warning the people of Pyongyang to stay away from military installations. "United Nations...
...assault on the Rockies was in full swing last week. In the van marched a squad of bushwhackers, armed with double-bitted axes, to clear a 50-ft. right-of-way. Behind them came bulldozers rooting out stumps and blasting crews cutting passes through the rocks for a new heavy-duty highway...
Still fingering the bruise on his neck, Pearson bustled over to the office of the U.S. District Attorney and swore out an assault warrant against Clark. Flushed with victory, Clark later pranced about outside the Mayflower's main entrance, re-enacting the battle for the hotel doorman and passing Senators. Next day he appeared in court, pleaded innocent to Pearson's assault charge. As for Pearson, whose spaniel-like manner is in contrast with his terrier-type reporting, he got some sound advice from his cook, Margaret Brown. Advised Margaret: grab your assailant by the ears and pull...
Happy Days. In Chrisman, Ill., Police Chief Carl Sayres was so overjoyed when the village bought him his first squad car that he 1) ran the car into a plowed field, 2) paid a $113 fine for drunkenness and assault & battery, 3) lost...
Correspondent James Bell joined Gibney at the front at the end of July. Accompanying a Marine assault force in the Naktong area, Bell captured the horror and heroism of war in his story, The Battle of No Name Ridge (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950). In September, Bell was a member of a team of five TIME Inc. reporters and photographers who covered the Inchon landings. Gibney had landed earlier on Wolmi Island, and watched the Inchon assault "about one city block away." Shortly afterward, Gibney returned to the U.S. and was replaced by Martin...