Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige had been sorely crippled in Korea, and this week all evidence pointed to a secret high-level decision that Korea was no place to repair it. It was noteworthy that the Eighth Army made no effort to throw a defense line across the peninsula; Eighth Army spokesmen denied any commitment to defend Seoul; and heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China...
...defeat-the worst defeat the U.S. had ever suffered. Even though the U.N. forces might still have the luck, skill and power to slow the Communist drive and withdraw in good order from the devastated peninsula, it was a defeat that could not be redressed in Korea. If this defeat were allowed to stand, it would mean the loss of Asia to Communism. If it were allowed to stand, no Asian could evermore put any stock in the promise that had given him hope against Communism-the promise that the U.S. and its allies would come to his help...
...blamed for not knowing, what the Chinese Communists intended to do with these forces. A reasonable argument was that if the Chinese had intended to come in, the best time was last July when they and the North Koreans could easily have pushed the U.N. forces off the peninsula at little cost to the Chinese. That was the consensus at Washington and Lake Success as well as in Tokyo...
...carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking in education. Next time, we will have to go down and educate Missouri and Kentucky...
Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...