Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Didn't Know. Other Chinese attacks sputtered from Kumsong, the main Red buildup base on the central front, almost to the Yellow Sea. At the top of the "Iron Triangle," onetime Red bastion, the Eighth Army's line was bent back. At Korangpo in the extreme west, the Reds punched forward, despite heavy U.N. artillery. By week's end, the Eighth Army recaptured all the lost ground and pushed...
...Eighth Army is ready for the enemy. It is in the best trim and the strongest positions of its Korean career...
...Francisco Seals, hard hit in recent years, are buried in eighth place this season, and Owner Paul Fagan, a bitter enemy of the draft, announced a fortnight ago that he was through, and ready to sell out. Fagan was in Honolulu last week, and in no mood to reconsider, when the owners took their action. Said he: "All the League actually did was to warn the majors. I think it was an idle threat. The majors will force them into some kind of compromise at the December meetings, and we'll be back about where we were." But other...
...Reds-that their fake incidents are simply to regain face. That is Washington's interpretation. If anything else is in prospect, General James Van Fleet is calmly ready for the enemy. "He can't bring into this battle line and support enough troops to defeat the Eighth Army," he said. "We would consider it a great opportunity if they were to attack. If [the G.I.s] have to start fighting again, they will have a new hatred for the enemy. They will be an eager army." As the waiting went on, two great armies sat within deadly proximity...
...letters all have foreign stamps, and they are all grateful. Though most of them begin "Dear Doctor," or "Dear Professor," the man to whom they are addressed never even finished eighth grade. He is just plain Henry Dunn, 60, caretaker of the University of Texas' Main Building...