Word: hastiere
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley. In Manhattan, a reporter picked up a report which had lain for two weeks in U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters. It had been submitted by Ridgway on Nov. 12-two days before Hanley made his announcement. As U.N. Commander for Korea, Ridgway reported not 6,000 U.S. atrocity victims (a figure he had indicated was unwarranted by solid evidence), nor 365 (the number he had said in Tokyo was proved), but "approximately 8,000 U.S. military personnel . . . reported killed...