Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wheels. Against this bitter, heavily financed and almost anonymous assault Taft had adopted the only practical strategy. It was to counterattack. By last week his fight for re-election and political survival had become the liveliest battle in the 1950 campaign. He had started his counterstroke a year ago, after Labor Day, campaigned until January, resumed the battle again last August. The 61-year-old Taft acted as though he were determined to show his face to every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy...
...week it began doing something about it. In the winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups. As a starter, the Army said it would make up four companies of parachutists, give them intensive training in amphibious assault, infiltration, use of enemy weapons, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. As the five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become an integral part of an infantry division: every division will have them. There will be only one thing to set them...
Changing signals, Major General Hobart Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, converted his frontal assault to a three-pronged drive. One of his columns swung west of the highway, knifed in a sweeping end run to the railroad and highway north of Kumchon to cut the main Communist supply line. The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade leapfrogged U.S. troops, sliced toward Kumchon in a wide northeast arc. The main body of the 1st Cavalry Division continued to slog up the Kumchon highway behind Patton tanks...
...from Red aggression. The war was hardly a fortnight old and the U.N. forces were still beating a dismal retreat, when the Chief of Staff was told to start thinking of an end run around the enemy's line. Inchon was picked as the place for an amphibious assault, despite its treacherous tide and seawall. "Who's going to command the landing force?" asked the Chief of Staff. "You are," said MacArthur...
...first major assault of the year upon the eight o'clock barrier has been repulsed with light losses on both sides. On the specific issue of the Yale and Dartmouth weekends, there will be no midnight deadline but there may be some minor extensions of the guest privilege on one or both of the weekends...