Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Osborne, senior TIME-LIFE correspondent in the Pacific, who has returned from four months of reporting there, reports a reaction among officers and men of the Eighth Army to one of the stories he wrote that surprised and delighted them. The story was called "The Ugly War" (TIME, LIFE, Aug. 21). It made the point that the war against the Communists of Asia could not be won by military means alone but required political savvy as well. An attempt to win it, as the U.S. was doing in Korea, only by force of arms would court eventual failure...
These thoughts were current among U.S. commanders in Korea, and after the story was published Osborne found wide and vigorous agreement with it. General Douglas MacArthur said that he had ordered his staff to distribute the story as widely as possible in the Eighth Army. Said he: "It's good to see a publication writing with a sense of responsibility to its country...
...leading cross-country team for the last three years, had already run in two meets, which included a win over Springfield. Although Ram Ray Lister won the varsity race, and Dick Ahern of Holy Cross was second, the Crimson won by bunching its finishers, placing third, fifth, seventh, eighth, and eleventh...
...medal was originated by the Stockholm General Telephone Company in the memory of Henrik Tore Cedergren, Director of Telephony. It is awarded every five years to the most deserving researcher in electricity by the Royal Governors for the Universities of Technology in Sweden. Rudenberg, the eighth recipient, came to Harvard...
...Baker's wake the main body of the Eighth Army thrust into the enemy's southwestern army. For many a G.I. the road back meant a settling of old scores. A tank gunner moving up to Taejon, where the 24th U.S. Division had fought a desperate delaying action before retreating on July 21, sang...