Word: matte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last July 10, the Communist armies were in bad shape. From their last two spring offensives, they had reeled back with losses of probably 250,000 men. Epidemics of some sort were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens out, swallowing up Pyongyang (the North Koreans' capital, which they had lost once before) and some...
...February, under the label "Operation Quagmire," Matt Ridgway put out a bitter analysis of the Communist truce tactics: "The Communist plan...has called for a temporary show of progress following each period of complete delay. The Communists have known that, at certain times throughout the talks, they must inject a certain modicum of achievement as the price for their main program of bargaining inertia. This is part of the Communist war of nerves. Hope must be raised and dashed .according to schedule" (TIME, Feb. 18). This analysis seemed correct at the time; it still seems so today...
...Cabinet post. He was one of the worst Secretaries of War who ever bought a carload of defective rifles, but his power in Pennsylvania was unbroken until his death (at 90) in 1889. He passed his Senate seat on to his son, but his real power fell to Matt Quay...
...France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux were signing the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community, the military equivalent of the Schuman coal-and-steel pool. When (and if) ratified, it will weld 400,000 armed Germans into a supranational European Army, responsible to NATO's new Commander Matt Ridgway. Ancient Dream. At 5:12 p.m., the six Foreign Ministers, flanked by the U.S.'s Dean Acheson and Britain's Anthony Eden, made their way through a battery of klieg lights to an E-shaped conference table. France's Robert Schuman tapped for silence...
...north to 70,000. When this number was passed on to the U.N. truce negotiators, they were stunned. They had already (and unwisely) given Nam Il & Co. a much higher estimate; they knew the Reds would not accept the 70,000 figure. The U.N. negotiators reportedly asked Matt Ridgway for a rescreening. Ridgway referred the request to Van Fleet. Van Fleet, however, stoutly insisted that the prison stockades were under control, and resented any suggestion that they were not. Ridgway-and Washington-backed...