Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diamond Mountain Gang," 3,000 bypassed North Korean soldiers led by a brigadier general. Near Kojo one Marine company allowed nearly 1,000 "refugees" to cut its supply line. When the refugees opened fire, the company suffered heavy casualties...
...which Acheson called the Nationalist regime "a government which had lost the confidence of its own troops and its own people"). Vishinsky also quoted from General Joseph Stilwell's memoirs, in which Stilwell described the situation in China as the "Chinese cesspool" and the Nationalist regime as a "gang of murderers." Vishinsky elaborately apologized for such language: "I should not want to say one rude word in any way, shape or manner. These are the words of the commander in chief of the United States troops in China...
...encourage good will-and future paying customers-he promoted "knothole gang" days and ladies' days. But his biggest success was in finding and developing player talent; he organized the Cardinal farm system, and reduced "ivory hunting" (i.e., talent scouting) to a business basis. By 1925, the Cardinals had five farm clubs developing major-league players. The next year, the Cardinals won the first pennant St. Louis had ever...
Rickey's farm system produced such stars as the Dean brothers, Johnny Mize, Pepper Martin and the rest of the Gashouse Gang, as well as Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial in later days. But the St. Louis turnstiles never clicked as fast as the Rickey brain. He became a master at selling his stars, at the right time, for fabulous prices. He sold a sore-armed Dizzy Dean for $185,000 at the precise moment when Dean was through as a pitcher, unloaded fading, 29-year-old Ducky Medwick for $135,500, and reached into his farm system...
Union Station (Paramount) stages a police hunt for kidnapers through Los Angeles' railroad terminal, elevated trains, stockyards and municipal tunnel. After methodically nabbing three members of the gang, the cops (William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald) undertake the ticklish job of smoking out its leader (Lyle Bettger) before he can do away with his hostage, a blind teen-age girl (Allene Roberts...