Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite the Administration's big round figures, there was evidence that military aid to China in 1945 and later was slow in arriving, that there were unconscionably long time lags between appropriations and deliveries, that the actual quantities and types of useful equipment delivered to the battlefield fell far short of the figures. The U.S. had refused to supply Chiang with military advisers down to combat level, although it was doing so in Greece...
...Whitney's Counterpoint (114 Ibs.), the $24,950 Peter Pan Handicap, over Battlefield (123 Ibs.) and six other three-year-old nominees for this week's Belmont Stakes, setting a track record (1:47-4/5) for the mile-and-one-eighth; at New York...
...George D. Widener's Battlefield (Eddie Arcaro up), the mile-long $25,000 Withers Stakes, over Jumbo (by a head); at New York, Battlefield's time: 1:35 4/5, equaling the-stakes record held by his grandfather, Man o' War, and three others...
...armored rescue forces broke up an enemy roadblock in the 2nd's rear, and helped the division re-form a solid line below Chunchon. On the fourth day, enemy pressure slackened while the Chinese removed their thousands of dead and wounded from the battlefield. At week's end, they attacked again with 30,000 men. The onslaught was broken...
...comrades would obviously like to gain at the conference table what they seemed unable to win on the battlefield...