Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Selenger and Molland streaked northward in a T-33 jet, the sky was murky, the air turbulent. They did not return. Last week the Air Force announced the fate of two of its most spectacular airmen. They had been found dead in the wreckage of their plane on a cloud-shrouded mountain top just north of Taegu...
...them on their vacations. Their changes of address plot some of the more interesting recreation habits of the country, reports Ed King, our subscription service general manager. Already some of our peripatetic readers are heading across the country to favorite vacation spots, but most are simply planning to shift northward or waterward away from hot cities and their suburban rims. Even West Coasters, who show less yen to move with the seasons than anybody else, are scheduling some trips into the Pacific Northwest. In the East, Cape Cod remains the traditional favorite, with all of northern New England again...
...first powerful northward thrust of the U.N. forces last week was a tank battalion-45 big Pattons-dispatched toward Uijongbu, eleven miles north of allied-held Seoul. Its stated task: to "seek out and destroy the enemy." Its purpose was, at least in part, to deny the town, almost leveled after ten months of seesaw war, to the Reds as an assembly point and staging base...
...Eighth Army moved warily northward. Two U.S. armored columns raided across the parallel on the western flank of the peninsula. One rolled up the main road north of Uijongbu toward Kumhwa; air spotters, directing artillery, helped it get back again before a Red ambush could be sprung. The second column, thrusting north of the Chongpyong Reservoir, ran into an enemy ambush of grenade and machine-gun fire, but managed to fight its way out to U.N. lines below the parallel. Along the central front above Chunchon, the enemy counterattacked; the main blow in his anticipated offensive seemed likely to come...
...should or should not cross the 38th parallel. The uproar was largely meaningless, because: 1) the U.N. had already authorized MacArthur to operate anywhere in Korea, and the authorization remained valid until withdrawn; 2) for military rather than political reasons, the Joint Chiefs of Staff begrudged every mile of northward advance. With every mile Ridgway moved northward, the Communist supply lines from their Manchurian "sanctuary" grew shorter (therefore less vulnerable to air attack), and the U.N. lines grew longer...