Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, the U.N. did not fall for this - quite. But worse was to come. As MacArthur approached the Chinese-Korean border, some of the border-minded began to howl as if the whole Eighth Army was marching up their spines. Then the Chinese poured over the border - but that did not count because it was not official; the Chinese Communist government said that there was nobody killing Americans in Korea but us volunteers...
There are two more lines where the U.S. might stand to fight delaying actions, the first above Chonan and Chungju. the second above Taejon (see map). It seemed likely that the Communists would soon make their customary long halt for regrouping and resupply. If they did, the Eighth Army might stop to harass them, make them pay dearly for every mile gained. But if the Chinese continued their powerful assault, the U.N. forces could not attempt a serious holding action anywhere short of the old Pusan perimeter. In Korea and Tokyo last week, there was more & more talk that...
...itself in a desperate military plight in Korea, could scarcely do more to help the refugees. No one knew what was to become of them if & when the U.N. line once more shrank to the narrow Pusan perimeter-or the U.N. forces were forced out of Korea altogether. Said Eighth Army Commander Matthew B. Ridgway, of the refugees' plight: "Perhaps the greatest tragedy to which Asia has ever been subjected in the course of its long history . . . Everything else is dwarfed by the pathos of this tragedy, and our American people haven't the faintest concept...
...Manhattan, Columbia University's basketball team over Cornell, in a rout, 85 to 45, for Columbia's eighth straight this season, Cornell's first defeat in ten games...
...fifth edition, the editors could talk about the Rosetta stone; by the eighth, about anesthesia; by the tenth, about appendicitis. As it added subjects, EB also added writers, and such notables as Sir Walter Scott on chivalry and Lord Macaulay on Samuel Johnson were among its authors. Gradually, U.S. scholars also began to contribute (the first, in the 18505: onetime President Edward Everett of Harvard). As U.S. sales increased, Americans began to take a hand in the editing too. Finally, in 1901, two high-powered Americans, Horace E. Hooper and Walter M. Jackson, bought out EB entirely...