Word: clump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...187th quickly seized its objective: a clump of hills dominating what was thought to be the escape route for the retreating Reds. "The purpose of this operation is to kill the enemy," reiterated General Ridgway, who followed the paratroopers in a light plane. But Bowen's men found their quarry had slipped out of the trap. Instead of 60,000 Communists, they found less than 20,000. A few hours after the drop, U.N. tank-led task columns from Uijongbu linked up with the chutists. The enemy was still withdrawing; north of the 38th parallel he was either digging...
Francis pulled in the slack in the rope as Forbes fell and lot out slack as Forbes hit the end to prevent a sudden jerk. Then Francis lowered him to a clump of bushes below. Humphreys stayed with Forbes during Francis' two hour scramble back to got help...
...each order of chicken served. By last week some 335 million orders of chicken had been sold under his royalty setup. Osborne also sells or leases to his franchise customers everything from patented chicken fryers to water glasses bearing his trademark (a design showing a rooster standing in a clump of grass with a broken golf club...