Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NBCTV) now has an audience of some 5,000,000, rates as one of the liveliest news shows on television. Each 15-minute program begins with Commentator Swayze's crisp delivery of he latest news bulletins. As he talks, the camera may switch to an animated war map, or a newsreel film of U.S. troops in action. Sometimes there is a quick jump to Washington, London or Rome for filmed shots of political headliners and recorded interviews. After more news films -supplied by over 50 NBC cameramen cattered from Seville to Seoul-the show goes to Chicago...
...pioneer laboratory, out of which grew the autonomous Sheffield Scientific School. Gradually, Yale began to accumulate some of its brightest ornaments. There were Physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, who formulated the laws that form the basis for modern thermodynamics, Elias Loomis, who helped devise the modern weather map, Geologist James Dwight Dana, Sociologist William Graham Sumner...
Like a Rock. The Chinese launched their heaviest blow at the Inje sector (see map), in difficult mountainous terrain where the front was held by ROK units. Hitting the ROKs has become a standard Chinese tactic, and was not unexpected by the allied command; but General Van Fleet did not have enough troops to back up the South Koreans in the west-central sector. He had done the next best thing: he posted a dependable, battle-seasoned U.S. division-the 2nd Infantry-on the South Koreans' left, and he had armored reserves ready to rush forward in case...
William J. Fulton, publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick's New York correspondent who "investigated Harvard" earlier this spring, noted with alarm that the college in the "green, pine-dotted hill" was flying the United Nations flag "with its spider web map of the world on a blue background...
Chunchon (see map). They tried to hide their movements under smoke screens created by smudge pots and burning brush. Allied planes dived through the smoke, raking troop concentrations, vehicle columns, pack trains, motorcycles and oxcarts. General Van Fleet and his army braced for the attack-with barbed wire, minefields and artillery massed "wheel to wheel." Any night the Chinese might blow their bugles and whistles, set off their green flares, and attack...