Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oscar Henry 1G will sing the tenor title role. Other soloists are Eunice Alberts, contralto, and Paul D. Tibbetts '45, baritone. Robert G. Woverton '53 will perform the piano solo in Constant Lambert's "The Rio Grande...
...long as the U.S. felt more or less safe, it could tolerate the idea of "coexistence" with countries dominated by an ideology the U.S. hates. But Americans are not going in for indefinite coexistence at the price they are now paying: constant dread of atomic bombing, $70 billion a year for defense, and its youth in uniform. When it began to mobilize this winter, the U.S. was not mobilizing for indefinite containment. It was mobilizing to end the present intolerable state of danger...
While air strikes are dependent on the weather, artillery support is a constant that infantrymen can reckon on. Last week, in a heavy snowstorm, U.S. troops near Yoju edgily waited for a Communist attack. Then, as they heard the muted rustle of outgoing shells through the curtain of the snow, they relaxed. "That's what I like about those gunners," a platoon sergeant said. "Any hour, any weather, always on the ball...
...Chinese, says Grady, are "more than ordinarily brave," perhaps because of their "constant companionship with poverty and danger, caused sometimes by natural disasters, but only too often by human incompetence and cruelty." He reports accounts of several martyrdoms, both of missionaries and of Chinese priests and laymen...
...quite different. Largely as a result of General Ridgway's morale-boosting, the Eighth Army was no longer suffering from "bugout fever" (an overquick tendency to retreat in case of trouble). Instead of being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats. Moreover, when they struck in November, the Chinese were fresh, confident, unhurt. Now they had been weakened by allied air attacks and ground action, and by cold, hunger and disease. Estimates of enemy battle casualties since Jan. 25 soared last week beyond...