Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fatal Mistake." The descent from the triumph of V-J Day to the day of desperation at Suwon had been dizzyingly swift. Communist imperialism began its march through Asia before V-J Day. It used the most mobile of weapons, political agitation and ruthless organization. In Korea-as in China, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-native Communists, shouting slogans of freedom and independence, were forging for their people heavier chains of slavery than even Asia had ever known...
...China we have made the fatal mistake every soldier dreads: underestimating the enemy. If we had dreamed that the Communists could take China, we would have swallowed Chiang Kaishek, horns, cloven hooves and all-if that was the way we felt about him. Personally I have great respect for Chiang...
...kind of scared them anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife. "We'll sick the dog on them." Others just locked their doors and stayed inside. Raiders at the road blocks were warned...
...little man," said ex-Open Champion Lloyd Mangrum, "is the only one in golf I've ever feared." The little man was Texas Ben Hogan, hitting the comeback trail after a near-fatal auto accident last year (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). After the first round of the National Open last week, Ben Hogan was trailing eight strokes behind an unknown, unemployed 26-year-old pro from Birmingham named Lee Mackey Jr., who had burned up the course with a record-breaking six-under...
...Thursdays. The film, a tragedy of sorts, is of last year's regatta, in which a supposedly unbeatable varsity and J. V. lost to the Elis. This year the Crimson crews are again highly favored. If they should lose, Bolles vowed, it will not be because of the fatal overconfidence...