Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman worked hard on his eighth and last message to Congress on the State of the Union, determined to speak his valedictory in the calm, reasoning voice of the statesman. At 11:15 one night last week-late by Truman standards-he finished going over the fifth draft, left his speechwriters working well past midnight to buff the rough edges...
...December the Reds boasted over their loudspeakers that they would be in Seoul by Christmas-but made no effort to get there. For New Year's Eve, they invited the Eighth Army boys to come on over and enjoy a big celebration. Next day they outdid themselves by threatening a "general offensive" for Sunday, Jan. 4. When Sunday rolled around, there was no attack, major or minor. Most sectors were, in fact, unusually quiet...
Alongside its totals for dead and wounded from October's battles for the Kumwha ridges, the Eighth Army in Korea was checking another figure last week: manpower losses caused by mental illness. From just behind the front, Psychiatrist Robert J. Lavin sent in an encouraging report on the 7th Division. Of 250 men who had shambled into his tent during the month, said Captain Lavin, he had been able to send no fewer than 247 back to duty. The great majority went back to combat within four or five days, and most of the others got service...
...cases. Or he may keep the patient a couple of days longer; his interviews are more searching, and he may have time to treat moderately severe cases with a "truth drug" and let the patient act out the battle experiences and emotions which bedevil him. Finally, there is the Eighth Army's hospital in Seoul, camouflaged under the name of a "holding company." Even there, patients from the front lines stay only a few days. If the psychiatrists are satisfied that a man cannot be fixed up then & there, they order him evacuated. But now such cases are rare...
Those simple possessions were the outward badge of failure. His schooling had ended in the eighth grade, and a long succession of boring jobs without a future had made him uneasy. Awkward and bashful, he didn't even have a steady girl to cheer him. He loved his Swedish-immigrant parents, but he wanted something more exciting than his father's life as a railroad laborer, ten hours a day, six days and six dollars a week. Eventually he was to find a life very much to his liking, but at the end of this long book...