Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Koreans were defiant enough to transgress even this restricted legal loop. The U.N. instantly reacted. But when Mac Arthur was chasing the Korean Reds toward the 38th parallel, an outcry arose that showed how deeply the border-crossing fetish had sunk into the Western mind. MacArthur, it was held, would in become an aggressor if he crossed the parallel in pursuit of the criminal force...
Since then, the Korean war has been well looped up. There was the heroic and brilliant loop around Hungnam, and the less brilliant one around Seoul, and next, apparently, will be a loop around Pusan. Perimeters, however, even brilliant and heroic ones, have only two military purposes: to get out of and to move forward from. Where is the U.S. going to move from its Pusan perimeter (or from any of the other perimeters drawn by the participants in the Great Debate...
...White House rose garden seemed more like a christening than an epilogue to bloody Two Jima (casualties: dead, 5,563; wounded, 17,343). Colonel Justice Marion ("Jumping Joe") Chambers, 42, retired Marine hero of the Iwo invasion, had brought along his family of five to watch the President loop the shiny, star-shaped Medal of Honor around Chambers' neck. Harry Truman had hardly begun the commendation when one of the seven-month-old Chambers twins grabbed at the script, rattled it vigorously until restrained by a firm presidential hand. Then the other twin reached up for the President...
...draws his uniform, and by the end of the comic book he has acquired self-confidence, leadership, and a brunette with a Buick convertible, who hangs on his sleeve and says, "Ted, you're getting so many decorations! What are you, a general or something?" (Answer: "Not yet. The loop is for Pershing rifles and the medal is for sharp-shooters.") Quick-tongued now, he shines at the annual military ball: "Ted, that's the dreamiest band I've ever danced to." "And you're the dreamiest girl I ever danced with." He has fun at summer camp, talking with...
Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...