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...General MacArthur, or the political strategists, followed this plan in the late autumn of 1950, the tragic retreat from the Yalu . . . and three long, cold winters on the battle line might have been avoided. Instead, our actions ignored the military capabilities of the Chinese Communists, and were based upon a forlorn hope and false estimate of the enemy's intentions...
...your money!" The 71-year-old grocer grabbed a butcher knife and hacked at the youth's face and arm. Simpson began shooting. His pistol fired, clicked twice, and fired again. The grocer fell dead. The bleeding youth ran home and was arrested almost immediately. That was last autumn...
...good. But to argue that because the two platoon system is gone, more time will be required to instill the principles of survival in players is unnecessary. Coaches will now work with 11 players rather than with 44, and will have proportionately more time to spend with them each autumn; in addition, football fundamentals come more naturally to the few than to the many...
...each sharply etched, sometimes by a gesture of the performer, sometimes by a line from the author. As Mrs. Pardiggle, an officious do-gooder, Williams seems to puff out, his voice crispens, his eye arrests. And Dickens delineates shrewish Mrs. Snagsby with "she has a nose like a sharp autumn-evening, inclining to be frosty...
...view in a Manhattan gallery were 27 oils and watercolors, all done in 1952: autumn hillsides, foaming seas and cockleshell boats, apple blossoms, circuses. As usual, he had worked with a light brush: a few lines for a fishing boat, a scattering of calligraphic squiggles to capture the rolling anger of The Written Sea. And no matter how fluid the motion, each picture had the "balance" Marin strives for. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he says. "I like my pictures to have that kind of balance...