Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat contained many of the elements of his great September victory. Then he was holding the Pusan perimeter with a force that was numerically inferior to the enemy. When talk of an impending offensive began to buzz around, military analysts called it rash. They said that MacArthur did not have nearly as many men as he needed...
...Desk. About the time Hoyle and Lyttleton reached this point of their reasoning, World War II put cosmology i ice. Both young mathematicians went into war work-Lyttleton into the War Office in London as a technical adviser and Hoyle into radar development All through the blitz and the buzz-bombs Lyttleton kept publishing small, abstruse papers. Hoyle, by his own account, worked on cosmology "under the desk" like a schoolboy reading comics instead of doing his arithmetic...
...soldiers pulls into town. The village church gets shot up something awful and most of the Japs get what's coming to them and those Ty hasn't had a chance to kill yet get in their truck and go away just as the sky begins to buzz with hundreds and hundreds of American planes and it looks like MacArthur was right when he said "I shall return" and sure enough he does return or anyhow somebody wearing stars and dark glasses rides through town on a jeep waving and everybody is yelling and waving American flags...
...Buzz Saw. Whether Chinese or Korean, the enemy had succeeded in breaking up a triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...
...prevent this, U.N. commanders sent the U.S. ist Cavalry Division racing toward Unsan to bolster the sagging R.O.K. units. At Unsan the cavalrymen ran into a Red buzz saw (see below). One field hospital south of Unsan treated more than 500 U.S. casualties in a single day. But, though badly cut up, the ist Cavalry Division averted a Communist breakthrough -at least for the time being...