Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days after the fleet left Japan, it dropped anchor off Pohang, a dusty, smelly little town with a mirror-calm harbor. Not a shot was fired. Most of the green-clad G.I. invaders came ashore without even getting their feet...
July 10, 1950, the second week of the Korean war. Said TIME: "Last week, after five years of division and bloody dissension in the Land of the Morning Calm, what remained of Korean freedom was staggering under the savage attack of a tyranny far more complete than that of the Japanese. Douglas MacArthur had said (and the U.S. people had forgotten): 'There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity...
Harry Truman wore his air of determined calm, but there were changes in his crowded routine. His calling list still included old cronies from Kansas City but the unlisted callers were more important. Secretary of State Acheson and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson dropped in almost at will. Every morning at 9-after the walk, after the breakfast swim and massage-he got a briefing from J.C.S. Chairman Omar Bradley (see cover). And he had issued orders to ring the telephone beside his bed at any time of night if there was important news...
...sorely overworked. He had been through years of terrifying strain. Once he said he did not think he could keep it up "if the end weren't in sight." By the end he meant his date of retirement from the J.C.S.: August 1951. His deep-seated calm probably accounted for his durability...
Across the Dominion, most people seemed stolidly unperturbed. With holiday plans or crop prospects to think about, Canadians felt far away from Korea. But there was calm agreement that the time had come at last to stop Red aggression. From the quiet reaches of New Brunswick came unusually heated words. Said the Saint John Times-Globe: "Probably a few [atom bombs] dropped now would quickly send the North Koreans back behind the 38th Parallel...