Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transports were combat-loaded, i.e., "backwards," kitchen gear put aboard first because it probably would be needed last; assault vehicles loaded last so they would be on top and could be spewed out onto the grey ships. On the quay stood a few tight knots of women. The men were the ist Provisional Marine Brigade, well-trained and well-equipped but fewer than 5,000 strong. Their commander told them: "There will be casualties among you." At week's end, heavily convoyed, the expedition departed...
...exact answer could be given. Since Russia held the initiative, it depended on what Russia would do next. The argument was being made that Korea might actually be the beginning of Russia's all-out assault on the Western democracies and that nothing less than total U.S. mobilization was adequate to the crisis...
...powdered milk and milk fats will be shipped overseas separately, whipped together just before mealtime to seem more like bottled milk; canned bread and poundcake are guaranteed to hold their shape and taste for two years in any climate. The old "K" ration even has a new name-an "assault food packet"-and will be fortified by a new variety of canned meats, besides old familiars: crackers, chocolate, cigarettes, matches and toilet paper...
...charge-actually or nominally-of the assault upon peace and Korea were...
Turkey is a tough mouse and an assault on it could be made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably...