Word: mop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaving an understudy to play gold-digging Lorelei Lee for a couple of weeks, mop-haired Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing hustled off to a Manhattan hospital to have her tonsils...
...primitive, war-damaged North Korean roads were clogged with other supplies, and the cold weather itself was hampering supply operations. Last month, when the weather was warm and the Chinese had not yet intervened, corps and division commanders had clamored incessantly for food and ammunition to keep the mop-up rolling. After the Chinese attack, the first call was for fighting supplies to repel the new enemy. Winter clothing shipments had taken a low priority...
...press them back, or cut behind them in an attack eastward from the Seoul enclave, along the 38th parallel, toward the Japan Sea. If he chose the latter, and if it succeeded, the rest of the fighting for South Korea-barring, as always, outside interference-would be a mop...
...wake of the 1st Marines moved the U.S. 7th Infantry Division and South Korean marines who helped mop up guerrillas. The South Koreans made a landing of their own, from Korean naval craft, some 200 miles down the west coast, at Mokpo. From this port, U.N. forces had access to the rich rice fields of southwest Korea, which are just ready for the harvest...
...most alarming event of the week was the North Koreans' rapid mop-up of the whole southwestern corner of the peninsula and most of the south coast. The U.S. left flank had been dangling somewhere near Chonju (see map); there were not enough men to extend the Allied line to the west coast, and furthermore, the U.S. left had to be pulled back as Korea's defenders retired to the build-up zone around Pusan. But the North Koreans sped the withdrawal to a dangerous pace. They simply poured around the open flank. At some points they were...