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...brief and simple annals of the poor cowboy span the years between 1867 and 1885. There was a stringy breed of cattle down in Texas called the longhorn and a market for them in the North. The cowboy brought these facts together until he was defeated by the onrush of civilization and by cattle tick (which killed less hardy herds), by sheep (which competed with them) and by Methodism (which tamed the hard-drinking cowhands). At this point in the book, the apparatus of scholarship gets to work. The reader is told that a cowboy seldom fought with...
...agitated waters, Georgy Malenkov summoned his two chief East German puppets-Otto Grotewohl and Walter Ulbricht-to Moscow last week for a Feast of "Soviet-German Friendship." They were wined & dined in Moscow as no German has been since the days of Von Ribbentrop. In a sudden onrush of vodka, the workers' rebellion of June 17 and the puppet regime's consequent loss of face, were supposed to be forgotten. Malenkov toasted the East German regime as "the bulwark of peaceful forces of all Germany"; he promised to give it "full support and help." A Kremlin communiqu...
Corporal Wendell H. Treffery of Terryville, Conn., a medic of the 7th Division, got it Nov. 30, 1950 south of Changjin Reservoir-first a wound in the chest, then the onrush of screaming Chinese...
Peter J. O. Self 1G defended the intellectuals against Viereck's onrush of words, contending that there was no reason why intellectuals should not have been easier with Communism than with Fascism during...
...killing was not altogether one-sided, although allied losses were only a small fraction of Red casualties. It took a little time to get "rolling with the punch" (one of last week's favorite expressions in Korea). In the first Red onrush, some allied units were overrun or cut off-notably Britain's gallant Gloucesters (see Men at War). Allied ambulances raced past southbound truck columns that rolled, bumper to bumper, through choking clouds of dust...