Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost to a man, the troops seemed to admire Ridgway's handling of the truce negotiations, but groaned profanely every time the talks stalled. "Here we go again," some said, adding their personal cuss words. No one doubted that the Eighth Army, the most effective and self-confident army the U.S. has ever fielded, would fight angrily, hard and well if called on again...
...Hogan, with a blazing final 6-under-par round of 66 for a 72-hole total of 273, the $12,500 top money (golf's biggest prize) in the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club's $50,000 tournament; at Chicago. Tied for eighth place: Lloyd Mangrum, who played his home course under police guard after a threatening telephone call (TIME...
...Pleven, 50, ex-businessman, ex-Premier and ex-Gaullist, who now leads an independent middle-of-the-road splinter party, at week's end agreed to take a crack at breaking the deadlock, eighth candidate since the election...
From the Korean battlefront came new evidence of the enemy buildup. In a week of careful probing, U.N. patrols identified two new Red armies (some 150,000 men) in the line. On the east-central flank, massed Red guns swept Eighth Army patrols off a strategic hill. Allied warships plastering Wonsan harbor for the 161st straight day encountered more powerful shore batteries. U.N. jet fighters were pounced on by MIGs, freshly equipped with wing fuel tanks which would enable them to operate far behind allied lines. Hundreds of Russian-made tanks maneuvered north of Kaesong...
...still righting the Communists on the Chinese mainland is a guerrilla army some 30,000 strong, under Lieut. General Li Mi, Nationalist-nominated governor of Yunnan province. In 1949, when Nationalist China collapsed, Li escaped from a Communist jail, retreated into Burma with the remnants of the Nationalists' Eighth and Twenty-Sixth Armies. Since then, his guerrillas have harried Red garrisons along the windswept Yunnan-Burma border...