Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had happened to change a routine run into disaster? One answer came clear when an autopsy on Engineer Wilburn showed evidence of hypertensive heart disease-suggesting that he had died suddenly of a heart attack. But where was Fireman Andrew, whose duty it was to check his engineer past all three warning signals-and in an emergency take over himself...
...these and a thousand similar peremptory devices, the U.S. had poured 5,000 airmen, sailors, and marines into Formosa in the four weeks since Red China began its attack on Quemoy. (There were already 4,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in the island when the crisis started.) Items...
Estimates of NATO strength remained secret for security reasons, although the Admiral admitted that the allied forces were considerably smaller than the Soviet armies. Despite their military strength, however, the Russians have "the patience and the realism" not to launch an attack while they are convinced of swift and united retaliation, Admiral Wright declared. "Our ability to convince them of this is the primary deterrent to aggression," he emphasized...
With the season's opener against Buffalo looming only three days distant, the varsity football team ended heavy practices for the week yesterday by concentrating on defensive work and brushing up on its passing attack...
Though the Crimson controlled the ball for most of the game, thanks to the efforts of the defense, its attack was stymied time after time in five full periods of opportunities. A scattering of costly fumbles,, three in one series of downs in the third period, added to this general frustration...