Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even then, it was not to "celebrate." A few days before the truce, marines on the western front had been engaged in a fierce fight with the Chinese. Two hundred bodies, all but a few of them Chinese, lay on East Berlin Hill and in the valley around the outpost. At the first dawn of peace, a handful of Chinese started up the slope toward Marine positions 25 yards away. Carefully the Reds wound through the debris of war: unexploded hand grenades, live mortar shells, empty machine-gun belts, smashed helmets-and the bodies. The marines let the Chinese pass...
...spoke them a symbol of failure. Communism has been forced into ideological retreat inside its own empire. Eight years of striving to Bolshevize East Germany in the Soviet image failed in the uprising of June 17. In the westernmost, and in many ways the most strategic, outpost of the Kremlin orbit, people rose up, without arms or organization or leaders, against the whole strength of a totalitarian regime and the Soviet army of occupation. They were suppressed, and not one inch of ground was wrenched from beneath the Red flag. But in their audacity, the East Germans 1) exposed their...
...places. Two days later, the Reds struck again, captured Capitol Hill from the ROK 5th Division. Then the Chinese launched their main assault. Thousands of Red troops (some estimates were as high as 25,000), supported by tanks and artillery, poured over the ROKs in the Capitol Hill and Outpost Texas sectors. At one point, the ROKs fell back two miles. It was the biggest retreat the U.N. has made in Korea in two years. One difficulty was that commanders of new ROK divisions, for fear of losing face, had failed to report how serious a jam they were...
...cease-fire approached, 3rd Division helicopters skittered through the green valleys, carrying the wounded to the crowded surgical hospital a few miles from Outpost Harry. There, a weary Army nurse waved her arm at a row of cots filled with bloody, groaning men. Said she: "Does this look like peace...
...fans who are puzzled by Eddy's disappearance from cinema, radio and TV, Eddy has the answers. For one thing, his last two romantic pictures, Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) and Northwest Outpost (1947), were box-office flops. "The movie people told me that the cycle of light romantic operas was at an end," he says. "The war had made people want realism." Nevertheless, he felt that Naughty Marietta, his first of nine films with Jeanette MacDonald, had the right formula. "We should have made more obvious sequels to that one-such as Son of Naughty Marietta...