Word: dike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never understood why you liked Americans so much," wrote one Dutch woman to a friend in the U.S. "To me, their insistence on the story of the boy with his finger in the dike always seemed indicative of their lack of understanding. I admit now I was totally wrong. Here they were with their trucks and helicopters, picking up people, bringing them in, and going right out on another mission. What struck me was that their hearts were in it, just as our Dutch hearts were." Offers of aid to The Netherlands had poured in from far away. A factory...
...varsity end Dike Hyde scored twice and Bill Fuller tallied once to lead the Crimson ruggers to a 21 to 0 victory over a British Navy team from the frigate H.M.S. Burghead Bay, stationed in Gloucester...
...third platoon in blocking position, sent the other two prowling north, past the moonlit hulks of three wrecked U.N. tanks. In a group of medics behind the skirmish line, Corporal Donald Reddick of Portland, Tenn., carrying a litter, had just slithered off the end of a paddy dike when the Chinese opened fire. Rifle bullets snapped overhead and then the enemy charged out of the dike shadows, throwing grenades. One exploded near Reddick, smashed his right knee. "I'm hit!" he shouted. The man next to him said, "Me too," but added quickly: "It was just my goddam canteen...
...hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter of a dike, a rifle bullet smashed Bennett's elbow. Nevertheless, he made it to the dike...
...last night on earth for Pfc. Marvin Brown, 20, of Greenstown, Ind., who had joined the 45th just two days before the division left Japan for Korea. When the Chinese attacked, he scrambled for a low dike. He was up and drawing a bead on enemy grenade throwers when a burp gun got him across the chest. His comrades saw him slumped against the dike with his head showing, then silhouetted in the brief red glare of a grenade. When they reached him, he was dead...