Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since the Dodd kidnaping, Boatner sent troops into one of the hard-core compounds. The North Korean officers of Compound 66 had built two corrugated tin huts which they seemed to be using as a command post and medical dispensary. After a tear-gas barrage had driven prisoners back from the wire, unarmed British troops in jaunty green berets went in, under the protection of U.S. guards with bayonets at the ready, and smashed the huts with axes, hatchets, sledges, crowbars. Nobody got hurt, but next day a prisoner work detail from Compound 96, carrying sewage buckets...
...cannot be libeled by caricature. The close-cropped, greying hair, the imperiously immobile face, the thin mustache and the prominent nose that terminates in a kind of bulb are even more of a Romanoff trademark than his coat of arms. His most recent crest (supplanting an elaborate compound that included a sheaf of wheat, a gargoyle and a Martini glass) is a chaste pair of back-to-back R's topped by a regal crown...
...Nose-Counting. So the screening orders went out, and General Ridgway passed them on to the Eighth Army, which passed them on to the Second Logistical Command at Pusan, and so on down. The screeners did their best, but their best was poor. Some compounds successfully resisted all screening. Undoubtedly, there were many men who hungered for freedom, but had no way of making their wishes known. In one compound where anti-Communists had got the upper hand, the leaders announced they would hold a preliminary screening of their own. They called for repatriation volunteers; when two loyal Communists stepped...
...Compound 602 held an elaborate funeral service for a Communist fanatic shot by a U.S. sergeant for resisting search. Shortly after dawn, a P.W. band using beer-can bugles, bamboo flutes and drums made of oilcans struck up an eerie cacophony. Twelve Chinese carrying flowers made of G.I. toilet paper shuffled out of the compound to the camp cemetery. Boatner approved the procession; in return, the Communists agreed to remove insulting anti-U.N. slogans from the barbed wire fence.* In Compound 76, the scene of General Dodd's imprisonment, unidentified corpses, presumably anti-Communists murdered by Red ringleaders...
...Pusan, U.S. infantrymen were called out to suppress an ugly hospital riot in Enclosure 10, which the Eighth Army rated a model camp. Most of its 8,000 prisoners had theoretically been screened as antiCommunists. A bunch of Red troublemakers were ordered to come out of one compound; when they refused, U.S. troops, backed by four tanks, were sent in to fetch them. The Reds hurled spears and barbed-wire flails; the Americans retaliated with tear gas and concussion grenades which stun but do not kill. Fiercest fighters of all were 600 Red amputees who hopped about on their stumps...