Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth-through-eighth-graders in New Jersey's Caldwell Township school, half are now working for various L.C.A. merit buttons. Some members have become such avid readers that one mother complained: "I can't get my children to bed any more. They want to sit up and read...
Writers and interviewers trying out for the news board will be able to cover more and more responsible assignments as the competition progresses. They may eventually be writing about the building of an eighth house, political happenings in Cambridge, or varsity sports...
Michael Joseph Mansfield's promotion to a command post would provide a new twist to a strange career: he quit school in the eighth grade, ran off and joined the Navy (he lied about his age, then 14), served a year during World War I, was discharged, promptly entered the Army for a year, received another honorable discharge, enlisted in the Marine Corps, stayed two years-and came out, not as any sort of commander, but as a private first class...
Deadly Shadow Boxing. By contrast, says Marshall, the speedy U.S. rotation policy and a go-slow attitude back home left the Eighth Army barely enough men to man its single trench line. "Its people were at least 50% deficient in fighting experience . . . The Eighth Army was a mobile army, but for lack of manpower, it was compelled to use the implements of mobility simply to sit and survive . . . The fighting which resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat...
...often under fire. Early in the Korean war 'he took leave of the Detroit News, to analyze the new enemy's unfamiliar techniques. Out of this experience came Marshall's best book, The River and the Gauntlet (TIME, June i, 1953), an epic description of the Eighth Army's 1950 defeat by the inrushing Chinese Communist masses...