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...Chinese hordes poured around the Eighth Army's open right flank, the 24th, 2nd and 25th Divisions fell back to the Chongchon and began crossing at Sinanju where a valuable airfield was lost, Anju and Kunu farther upriver. It was obvious that General Walker would have to keep his whole Eighth Army moving south if it was not to be trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1950: U.S. Army In Retreat in Korea | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...loyal to him; Watt has definitely been that. There may also be a tactical reason for Reagan's tolerance for his ill-spoken Interior Secretary. As the Administration has taken increasingly centrist positions, Watt has provided a kind of ideological protection for Reagan's right flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There He Goes Again | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...midfield, which second-year Coach Jape Shattuck predicted would be the squad's preseason strength, clinched the Crimson win. Hooper scrambled all over the field where field where needed, and wing halfbacks Pablo Keller-Sarmiento and Glenn Brack had enough space to make piercing runs from the flank...

Author: By Joseph Garcia, | Title: Crimson Booters Rout MIT With Five-Goal Performance | 9/15/1983 | See Source »

...complain if I get there late." Charlie drove the bodies up the East River, which fairly boiled this summer day, then through The Bronx, past signs for truck parts and cigarettes. The landscape was unrelievedly dismal until Charlie crossed the bridge to City Island, off the flank of The Bronx in Long Island Sound. Here there were bright, scrubbed storefronts, fishermen in slickers, the air of New England, and a ferry with a happy crew. Lloyd Roberts, an engineer, remarked on Charlie's load, "These passengers are the best. They don't pay, they don't talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Last Stop for the Poor | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...will turn 40 before her next Wimbledon, or the next Wimbledon, is approximately eleven years older than Chris Evert Lloyd, who is approximately eleven years older than Andrea Jaeger. Besides representing a tidy chronology of women's tennis, they were the forces marshaled this past fortnight on one flank of the Wimbledon draw, the side opposite Martina Navratilova, 26, whose only point of reference lately is herself. In seven matches averaging just over three-quarters of an hour, Navratilova lost no sets and only 25 games, defeating Jaeger at the end for her fourth Wimbledon women's singles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Martina's Turn at the Top | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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