Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is no struggle, on Jan. 23 the prisoners will walk south under the control of the compound leaders. Searchlights, loudspeakers and barbed-wire lanes marked with white tape will guide them. At the edge of the demilitarized zone, the North Koreans will be met by South Korean officials, whisked aboard trains and taken to Kunsan and Pohang, where they may (if they choose) be inducted into the ROK army. The Chinese prisoners will be met by Nationalist officials, trucked to Inchon and loaded on U.S. Navy LSTs bound for Formosa...
According to Britain's Nature, copying the principle used in the compound eyes of insects may get around this difficulty. Instead of having a single lens, as human eyes do, to focus an image on the retina, insect eyes have many fine tubes, each tipped with a small lens. Each lens views a small part of a wide field, and the light that enters the lenses follows the tubes and forms a mosaic image. Some of the tubes are curved, but the light follows them just the same...
...from his Japanese wife (but the majority actually composed by Associated Press staffers in Tokyo), urging him to seek repatriation. Most important of all. Batchelor had started to worry about his own hide: the other Americans suspected him of wavering, and had taken away most of his powers as compound leader. He knew what might happen next. So Claude Batchelor, who had flipped like a trained seal from democracy to Communism, prepared to flop right back again...
...after all the others had gone to sleep, Batchelor slipped from the barracks and ran to the barbed-wire fence surrounding the compound. He told an Indian guard: "I'm ill. I want to be taken to the medical-inspection room." Once there, he announced: "I'm all right. I want to be repatriated." Of the 23 original recalcitrants. Batchelor was the second to change his mind. The first. Corporal Edward Dickenson, had already returned to the U.S. and been married (TIME...
...below freezing at Panmunjom. The anti-Communist P.W.s buttoned their tents against the chill Siberian winds, and huddled around their potbellied stoves. There were no demonstrations against the Communist explainers; the P.W.s felt too confident to bother. The Communists dared only once last week to screen a North Korean compound, and they took another humiliating defeat: explanations 227: conversions 6. One P.W. argued two hours with his explainer about the Soviet loan to North Korea, then remarked: "You just don't seem to have any grasp of economics." Another P.W. asked the Indian chairman, in perfect English: "Doesn...