Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were getting starved for new victories, too. North of Taegu, a Red army corps of three divisions tried for four nights on end to barrel their armor down a poplar-lined stretch of road held by Colonel John ("Mike") MichaehV crack 2;th Regiment (see below). After six days & nights in this sector, the mauled Communist divisions pulled back out of U.S. artillery range...
...difference. Our own men, marines, surround them. As the jeep comes toward them I witness something of an advance in American communication with the people of the country. A marine is passing a mine detector over the clothing and packs of the refugees. Any metal-a rifle barrel, a pistol, a clip of ammunition, maybe the parts of a radio-will presumably be spotted by the detector. Anyhow, it is better than guns and the policemen whom I have seen at work...
...Truman's rebuff was possibly the Democrats' gain-Hennings looked like a better campaigner than Allison against the Republicans' Senator Forrest Donnell, an earnest, hair-splitting legalist in the Senate (where he is known as "The Big Itch"), but a cracker-barrel, Bible-quoting spellbinder along Missouri's back roads...
...sergeant, guarding three captured Reds, waved the barrel of his M-1 rifle at one of the prisoners, a sulky shaven-headed youth obviously not out of his teens. "This kid's a speed boy," the sergeant said to a U.S. correspondent. "We flush these three out of a paddy field, and this one tries to cut out. I don't want to shoot him, because we want to question him. So I just run him down. He was talking English like a professor from Yale College when we caught him," said the sergeant. "Come on, speed...
Craig used to drive around the front lines in a mud-spattered jeep, toting a carbine (he is an even better shot than most marines). Some marines claim that Eddie Craig has steel wool instead of hair on his chest and a 40-mm. gun barrel for a backbone. But he is no military tyrant. Like many another Marine Corps officer, Craig believes that the welfare of enlisted men comes first. On Bougainville (which rhymes, in marine parlance, with Hoganville), officers slept in foxholes if the men slept in foxholes, ate whatever rations the men ate. On postwar Guam, although...