Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were no sandbag barricades, no new pillboxes, rifle pits or foxholes. But the retreating Reds had looted the city again, although this time the pickings were slimmer. Tables and desks had been taken out of official buildings-but the "In," "Out," and "Hold" baskets had been left in the Eighth Army's onetime headquarters at Seoul University. Twenty-eight mattresses, evidently piled up for removal, had been left behind...
...first time since the Korean war began, U.S. news services last week were getting incomprehensible, hashed-up field dispatches tersely ending: "Rest of story withheld by censor." Reason: General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters had imposed a second censorship on stories already cleared by General Matt Ridgway's Eighth Army censors in the field, and had set up a board of ex-combat officers to run it. Under this sort of fire, Eighth Army censors had become tougher...
...date, seven volumes of Sibley's Harvard Graduates have appeared covering 84 classes and about 800 graduates. The eighth volume--1726 through 1730 will appear this spring and bring the total...
...hours this week the thirty-eighth parallel was abolished. The imaginary line that has been worrying everyone from Lake Success to Seoul for almost a year succumbed suddenly to General MacArthur's edict that correspondents would not be allowed to mention it in their dispatches...
...24th division of the Eighth Army, including the all-Negro 25th Regiment, he cited that the ratio of Negro to white troops is one to 3.7. Out of 118 complaints, 54 Negroes and 27 whites were arraigned. Of these, 32 Negroes and only two whites were convicted for cowardice, yet the records show no such disparity in the fighting performance of the troops...