Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Communists, who had been giving ground before Seoul and shifting strength to the east, launched a vicious 60,000-man assault on a 30-mile front in the central mountains of Korea. Outnumbered South Koreans, who were out in front with a U.S. division backing them up (see below), promptly collapsed. The Communists-Chinese and North Koreans -drove an eight-mile wedge in the allied line...
...Chinese followed up their central-front counterattack this week with power and determination, they might force a temporary U.N. withdrawal. But if and when their assault was contained, they would find themselves worse off than before...
...Atlanta Constitution and Executive Editor Ralph McGill buckled down to work 13 years ago to drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Georgia. The Constitution repeatedly headlined hooded assault and fiery cross burnings, prodded lethargic cops into jailing several of the ringleaders, kept up a constant drumfire of ridicule. When Indiana Veterinarian James A. Colescott was chosen Imperial Wizard of the Klan, Editor McGill wrote: "For the first time the Klan has chosen a proper man, a veterinarian skilled in dealing with dumb animals...
...Americans did not settle down on the new line. They pushed another reconnaissance in force-three armored patrols-north to disturb the Reds in Wonju if any were there. The town was unoccupied except for a few dispirited civilians wandering among the ruins. Later a North Korean assault from three sides drove the G.I.s out. Once more, at week's end, they went in for a quick look and then retired...
Rommel performed brilliantly in the desert, and Author Young explains the performance better than anyone else so far. When Montgomery finally bowled him over, in the assault beginning at El Alamein, it was by sheer weight and numbers. Of Montgomery, Rommel wrote: "He risked nothing which was the least dpubtful, and any bold action was completely foreign to him." To which Rommel's chief of staff, Fritz Bayerlein, added: "I do not think General Patton would have let us get away so easily...