Word: crumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ridge south of Chonan, a bearded U.S. sergeant in a foxhole heard the ineffective crump of mortars behind him change to the sharper slam of 155-mm. Long Toms. "Boy," he said happily, "my morale...
...pipe. To General Almond he said: "What do you say we push up there, eh Ned?" The party pushed on to a hill barely a mile from the 18th Century walls of Seoul. Clearly visible were towers of smoke from fires set by enemy shelling. Clearly audible was the crump of Communist mortars over the river. Below the hill a railroad bridge still stood intact, capable of supporting tanks and heavy trucks. Field glasses in hand, MacArthur ordered the bridge destroyed. Then he headed back for Suwon...
Married. Prentice Cooper, 54, wealthy ex-Governor of Tennessee, loyal servitor of Memphis Boss Ed Crump, and former U.S. Ambassador to Peru; and U.N. Administrative Assistant Hortense Powell, 30; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...idea was not originally Kefauver's. Ed Orgill's crowd had sold him on it, and then had backed him in Kefauver's spectacularly successful Senate race against the Memphis machine of Boss Ed Crump. The plan was not originally Orgill's either. It had had its origin in the mind of an ex-newspaperman, a gentle, dogged and dedicated crusader named Clarence Kirsh-man Streit (rhymes with fight...
...yelped that ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman ought to resign for the good of the country. A Senator longer than any of his colleagues (33 years), Kenneth McKellar, hell-raiser in committee and on the floor, has long been the meek and humble stooge of Tennessee's E. H. ("Boss") Crump...