Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story accompanying the map the editors explained that it looked now like a three-phase war. The first phase was to fight a delaying action toward Pusan and establish a perimeter around this excellent port with both flanks resting on the sea. U.S. & U.N. forces, with control of the air and sea, ought to be able to hold such a protected beachhead indefinitely. The second phase was to build up U.S. strength inside the perimeter. The third phase, as outlined by the editors, was the break out from the Pusan perimeter supported by Allied amphibious attacks behind the North Korean...
...months later the assault on Inchon bore out the editors' mid-July estimate of the situation and kicked off the third phase...
...Pints of Blood. No phase so graphically underlined the immensity and difficulty of the situation as the medical...
Muscle twitchings present in some of the patients receded." There was no evidence that the drug affected the polio virus in any way. But perhaps because the patients' resistance was not sapped so quickly by pain and loss of sleep, the acute phase of the illness appeared to be shortened...
...Phase One of the war had been the dismal series of retreats to a defensible beachhead line. Phase Two had been the creditable establishing and holding of the beachhead. But Phase Three-the buildup preparatory to a breakout-was moving too slowly. At the rate the manpower buildup was going last week, a general counteroffensive seemed no nearer than it had when the beachhead was first established. The enemy was still strong, still attacking, still forcing General Walker to dance to the Communist tune...