Word: forwarder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mood. The Communists last week produced a picture of what they described as the first U.S. prisoners of the war. The Americans themselves were beginning to take more Korean prisoners. Almost for the first time since the fighting started, small bands of North Korean troops came forward under white flags to surrender. An incident at one U.S. command post highlighted the slightly changing mood of battle...
...accused McCarthy of "hit & run" tactics, of a "cavalier disregard for facts," of "twisting, coloring, perverting and distorting" the truth, of a "campaign of vilification against this committee probably unparalleled in the history of congressional investigations." "Starting with nothing," it stated, "Senator McCarthy plunged headlong forward, desperately seeking to develop some information which, colored with distortion and fanned by a blaze of bias, would forestall a day of reckoning...
...hours later, the clangor of general quarters sent all hands to their battle stations. The Juneau was 4,000 yards offshore and the lights of trucks moving along coastal roads in enemy-held South Korea could be seen with the naked eye. One of the Juneau's forward guns cracked sharply and a flare-shell sped into the night. A few seconds later a brilliant white light floated gracefully over the beach toward low hills. The five-inchers pounded for a few minutes and then all was dark and silent again. The Juneau swung about and cruised south...
Last week U.S. and South Korean ground forces had their first tangible evidence of the growing effect of air action on North Korean morale. Into the forward post of a South Korean regiment near Koesan walked eight unarmed Reds, their hands raised high over their mustard-colored tunics. They had come to give themselves up. The Communist sergeant said his units now rarely attempted to move anywhere by daylight, reported that Red morale and provisions were running low in some sectors. "The bombing," he said, "is just...
Stalin's Russia can move forward, sideways or backwards. One smart Russian move might be an offer of a "general" settlement in which the Communists would move back of the 38th parallel in Korea, and the U.S. would recognize Communist China and accept Mao Tse-tung's nominee for the United Nations. That would be tantamount to handing Asia over to Communism...