Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three restful days at Eagle's Crest were Elizabeth's and Philip's preparation for the most strenuous week of their tour. In the next four days, they sped eastward across 2,500 miles of Canada to see, and be seen by, more cheering Canadian crowds. This week they would arrive in Washington for a three-day stopover at Blair House as guests of President and Mrs. Truman. On the program are two formal dinners, luncheon with the Tru-mans and a round of capital receptions and sightseeing, patterned on the visit of the British King...
...enemy had lost 16,700 men in the week ending Oct. 12. One captured North Korean officer said that his 4,000-man outfit had lost half its strength; another said that the North Korean army was "practically nonexistent." A Chinese corps of 30,000 men was observed moving eastward to back up the mangled Korean Reds. ¶ General Van Fleet appeared to be hitting the enemy with a sort of one-two punch. While his western-front offensive suddenly tapered off, a new drive involving three allied divisions (one U.S., two South Korean) was launched at Kumsong, the Reds...
...from France to Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...
...gallant knight that rescued Bermuda was a second hurricane, "Fox," that followed a converging course to the eastward, farther out in the Atlantic. When the two Storms were 450 miles apart, they began to come under the "Fujihara Effect"-the tendency of two approaching hurricanes to waltz around each other (see diagram...
...your trenches and wait," he says. "Punch them in the puss as soon as they show any signs of moving westward." He believes that NATO's forces, when motorized and brought up to planned strength, could quickly seize the initiative in case of attack and punch their way eastward despite enemy masses...