Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end some 8,000 marines broke through the last thin crust of enemy resistance and poured into Hamhung. More kept coming in every hour as tanks bringing up the rear rolled across the coastal plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...
...lull in the ground action went on for four days, except for sputtering local fights. After chewing up seven of the nine Chinese regiments which had surrounded them, the marines were in sight of Changjin reservoir. The final crust of enemy resistance in that area was broken by fierce Allied air attacks with rockets and jellied gasoline. Within a few miles of the reservoir, the marines sat down. All four of the Changjin power plants were in their hands...
Inside this prosaic moral crust, the Anglo-Irish have always carried a defiant spirit. The high point of the Irish genius is reached in pure, disinterested destructiveness, and of that Shaw was the supreme intellectual embodiment in his time and the eager heir of Swift. It is important to note, however, that this destructiveness is mainly directed at sitting birds; the war of 1914 may have come at an awkward time in Shaw's life as an artist-he was 58-but once the world began to destroy itself, Shaw's destructiveness was outdone, he made crazy...
...even a crust brad we Got in our houses- If you dun't come across we all are dad docks...
...more than a month Haitians have been reeling under one such outpouring after another of Candidate Magloire's official hospitality. In addition to buying movies, drinks and picnic suppers for everybody, the tall, handsome colonel has also wooed the upper crust with balls and brunches in the best hotels, the masses with sandwiches tossed from army trucks...