Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, General Kim stopped bowling. Instead of trying to take the road headon, he tried to cut it off by an enveloping thrust. Kim sent his 8th Regiment through a hole in the South Korean line on Michaelis' right flank...
While she was being put back in shape, the rechristened Liberté tore loose from her moorings in a storm, knocked a hole in her hull and sank on a mud bank. The French Line spent almost $20 million to raise and refurbish the ship. The sum was roughly equal to the Europa's original cost, but it was only about one-fourth the postwar cost of building such a vessel. The French Line hoped the sleek liner would earn back the money on the profitable Atlantic...
...average G.I. seems not to know why he is fighting in Korea." "The recruiting posters didn't say anything about this," a young infantryman told him. "I'll fight for my country, but damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell hole." Perhaps Reporter Johnston didn't realize that, in a battle area, G.I.s are apt to brush off or fliply answer a question they consider too personal or too demanding. But he got a sounder answer from a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. "I'll tell you what...
...buddy and I seen this snake wrigglin' into the hole; it was a little green snake, and they'd tole us it was real poisonous. We couldn't get out of the hole. They woulda got us for sure. So Jimmy he reaches over real careful and grabs the snake by the neck and he squeezes him until he is dead and then we start shootin' at the gooks again...
...have to go up the hill again. Said Davis: "We didn't ask him why, because we never know about those things." Davis and Wright fought their way back up the hill; it was straight up. They reached the top after dark and settled in their old hole. This time, they said, they found no green snake...