Word: lull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides hunting Chinese Reds and Korean snails, Buster serves as adviser to his outfit on all matters zoological. He has taught them to recognise a poisonous snake or two, and during the pre-battle lull he gave them the word on swimming in the Han: little danger of schistosomiasis because oncomelania prefer narrow, shaded streams. A good chance of picking up paragonimiasis because the broad, open river might have Paragonimus westermani...
...jobs in Tokyo, he said to Van Fleet: "I won't get in your hair, Van." But Van Fleet is carrying on Ridgway's strategy-to save the maximum allied lives by maneuver, to kill the maximum enemy troops by massed firepower. Last week, in the lull that followed the abortive and costly first phase of the enemy offensive, he told his troops that they had won a "great victory." But he warned them that the Communists could still strike another hard blow...
...Korea last week, the weather was warm, the sky was blue, the fields were sprouting fresh green. During the lull in the fighting, G.I. laundry hung on the barrels of tank guns; some soldiers went swimming in the Han. In spite of their high spirits and their confidence in themselves and their commander, the troops were homesick. Despite his optimism, the Eighth Army's Commander Van Fleet could not promise them a decisive victory that would send them home soon-not until someone persuaded Washington, as he had persuaded the Greeks, to seize the initiative, to take the offensive...
...front lines across Korea, the general picture was one of lull before a storm. A U.S. private described it as "a little noise and a lot of climbing." General
...lull between its hearings on Communism in Hollywood, the House Un-American Activities Committee last week issued another report on the doings of U.S. Reds and their supporters. The theme of the report this time was "The Communist 'Peace' Offensive," and the committeemen listed more than 350 prominent U.S. citizens-scientists, artists, "an inordinately large proportion of clerics"-who had signed up for "peace/' Russian-style. Well up on the list: Oscar Winners Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer and Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday (TIME, April...