Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through it runs a double-tracked trunk-line railroad, which twists 125 miles through the mountains to Pusan, the U.S. buildup port in the southeast. Last week the North Korean Reds arrived at the city's outskirts. U.S. troops of the 24th Division were supposed to hold Taejon two days ; they held it for three...
...chopper. This kind of tactics permitted U.S. withdrawals when things got too hot; it also meant that the Reds were not causing as much destruction as the Germans did in the blitzkrieg phase of World War II. North Korean military weaknesses might be exploited when (and if) the U.S. buildup accumulated a real counteroffensive punch...
Looking at the whole chessboard, Stalin & Co. saw that the anti-Communist strength of Western Europe was building up dramatically, thanks to EGA and MAP (Military Assistance Program). The efforts of the European and U.S. Communist Parties to sabotage this buildup had failed. It was the Kremlin's turn to move, and the move was obvious and long-prepared-Formosa...
...Page One headlines ready. But twice Benedict Macri broke his date with Winchell. Apologized a go-between: "Please, Mr. Winchell, we got him in such a deep freeze that it's not easy to dig him up." Then, on his radio broadcast last week, Winchell finished his buildup; he announced that he would turn Benedict Macri in to the cops that very night. About 10:50 p.m., a black coupé pulled up alongside the waiting columnist on a street in downtown Manhattan. After identifying himself, Winchell added: "Benedict, I am sorry to meet you under these circumstances." Replied...
...cold war against Communism. The North Atlantic Council in London made a decision that lifted the West's alliance off its neat, stiff treaty paper and pushed it toward organizational reality. The council's communiqué spoke of "the creation of balanced collective forces in the progressive buildup of the defense of the North Atlantic area...