Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, on the Iron Triangle's west face, the brave and weary ROK 9th Division was mopping up on White Horse Hill (TIME, Oct. 20). The South Koreans had found that they could hold the crest if they kept the Chinese off the neighboring knobs; and the enemy was holding by his fingernails only to three knobs, known as the Three Sisters. The Koreans tunneled under the Three Sisters, laid massive charges of TNT, and blew the knobs and most of the Chinese on them to smithereens. After that, White Horse seemed secure...
...greater import than the hill itself was the fact that the new ROK army -which now outnumbers the U.S. and all other U.N. units combined-had proved itself a brave and effective fighting force. Twelve months ago, General Van Fleet began pulling the ROK units out of line for thorough training, regrouping and refitting. Recently, U.S. liaison officers have been saying that the ROKs had been metamorphosed into first-class infantry fighters. Without the test of battle, nobody could be sure. White Horse was the test...
...Tonight," said Ike, "I saw an example of courage. I have seen many brave men in tough situations. I have never seen any come through in better fashion than Senator Nixon did tonight." He recalled a dramatic parallel. "In [my World War II] command, I had a singularly brave and skillful leader. He was my lifelong friend. We were intimate. He committed an error. It was a definite error; there was no question about it. I believed that the work of that man was too great to sacrifice . . . He has gone before the highest judge of all, but . . . certainly George...
...policymakers have accepted their failures ... It takes smugness to try to stifle critics, as the Democratic candidate did last week, with the epigram that 'A wise man does not try to hurry history.' Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...
...letter from a Stevenson backer, printed in the Spectator, regrets this stand as "a brave one, but . . . I do not think . . . a fair...