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...charged Company E, 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment, last Nov. 5, there seemed, in the first split second, nothing that any man could do to stop them. The men of the 19th were caught by surprise in scattered holes and ditches along a ridge near Chonghyon. The Chinese started their dash only 100 ft. from the 19th's most forward outpost...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...that Loop traffic is all but halted between 9:45 and 10 by swarming office workers out for the morning cup. In Washington, Ohio's Representative George Bender grumbled: "The Government buildings at coffee hour turn into skeletons. They look like recess time at school. The boys & girls dash off for coffee as if rehearsing for fire drill...
...Long Bitter Lesson. The tactics of the new Eighth Army advance were far different from the heedlessness of last November's dash toward the Yalu. Ridgway worked his divisions ahead very slowly, sent armored spearheads in front to keep constant contact with the Reds. His offensive moved like a cautious driver going down a hill in second, careful not to lose control and anxious to avoid being hit at an intersection...
Fenton's technical problems were horrendous. The dry-plate had yet to be invented and he had to coat his plates with sensitized solution, dash outside and expose them before they had time to dry. The developing water was "so hot that I can hardly bear my hands...