Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where he joined General Matthew B. Ridgway. They took a waiting C-54 and roared off to a forward area landing strip in Korea. Within minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left town...
Said Lieut. General James Van Fleet: "The Eighth Army's pursuit phase has now ended with the clearing, again, of enemy units from South Korea . . . The Eighth Army will continue, however . . . when necessary and profitable, [to] meet [enemy] threats within North Korea...
...pause in the Eighth Army's pursuit in Korea (see below) underlined Lie's words. London eagerly approved; Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison declared that a "psychological moment" had arrived for a truce. Into this flurry of wishful activity Ambassador Ernest A. Gross, U.S. delegate to the U.N., dropped a timely reminder. "Peace efforts," he said, "thus far have been entirely from one side-the U.N. side...
Heavy rains of the beginning monsoon season mired the roads and hampered air support. This week, nevertheless, the Eighth Army stood approximately on the line, well across the parallel along most of the front, which it had occupied in April when the Reds launched their bloody spring push. Washington's estimate of enemy casualties for the second phase, including those inflicted by allied air action, soared to 162,000. Added to the 90,000 estimated for the first phase, this made a total of a quartermillion. U.N. soldiers found a grisly new way to occupy their time, when they...
...royal father, Prince Knud, brother of Denmark's King Frederik and heir apparent to the crown, eleven-year-old Prince Ingolf set off in a 1,300-ft. soapbox derby near Copenhagen. His car hit a top speed of more than 18 m.p.h., but he finished eighth...