Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero MacArthur today held General Eisenhower's assignment, he would be screaming for us to negotiate any kind of peace with Red China and pull out of the completely worthless Korean peninsula and rush every division to our really important and strategic outpost, Western Europe. But being a good soldier, Eisenhower obeys orders and stays out of party politics. All credit...
Died. Field Marshal Lord William Riddell Birdwood, 85, commander of the Dardanelles Army in the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, oldest active soldier in the British Army; in London...
...very difficult to win on a defensive basis [but] it is very reckless when you are under strength to plunge in on an aggressive offensive procedure. There have been some notable defensive campaigns in history which have ended in an offensive and decisive action . . . Notably, one was the peninsula campaign under Wellington . . . His campaign was measured in years ... In the end, he really played a leading part in the complete upset of the Napoleonic regime. He had to start on a defensive basis. He had no other choice. We have had to start on a defensive basis because we have...
...latitude of this week's fighting, the Chinese are cramped and the allied line is protected at both ends by the sea. Above the waist, where the peninsula widens out toward the 700-mile frontier line, the Chinese would have plenty of room and Van Fleet would not have enough men. If the Chinese decide to move north, the U.N. forces would be sentenced to an indefinite and costly stalemate...
...their first full-dress test the researchers picked Bataan, across Manila Bay from Williams' old laboratory. They drew a line down the peninsula. East of the line, all the rice to be eaten was milled the ordinary way, then mixed (200 parts to one) with rice which had been coated with Bi, niacin and iron. West of the line, the Filipinos ate plain white rice...