Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week correspondents got an official shoulder patch with the initials "U.N." and the words "war correspondent" in blue and silver, the U.N. colors...
...NAME RIDGE is a barren, useless place with a few scrub bushes and a patch of reddish soil in the center, the result of a landslide in some forgotten rainy season. To the right, a dark gully scars its side. It is called No Name Ridge for the quite straightforward reason that it has no name. But No Name Ridge will not be forgotten by the U.S. Marine Corps...
...last of the wounded were coming out of the valley as the new wave got ready to jump off for the ridge with no name. General Craig came down from the edge of the bean patch and watched the last litters. Finally he walked to a litter going by and touched a badly wounded boy on the shoulder...
...succeeding months, as Harry Truman popped in & out of the state clapping Em Allison encouragingly on the back, the Democratic Party bucked and groaned like a plow that had hit a patch of Ozark hardscrabble. Most Democrats thought that Thomas C. Hennings Jr., a hearty St. Louis attorney who had earned a substantial reputation as a U.S. Congressman in the '30s, would make a better candidate and many of them were committed...
...made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably get all-out U.S.-U.N. help...