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One cold, dark, blustery winter morning, my gangling roommate took the window route with a paratrooper's magnificent form and timing precision. But a sudden gust blew the heavy dormers shut on his flying overcoat tails and left him hung corseted, pitiful and helpless against the barracks' wall...
As the fighting approached the capital, its pitiful inhabitants for the third time crossed the river and plodded south, on roads now turned to quagmires by pouring rains. The government had warned them not to re-enter Seoul after its second capture by the allies, but 200,000 had gone...
The train stopped at the border line and we were marched two by two across the Chinese border. I looked up and saw for the first time our national flag waving in the distance. I suddenly burst into tears, as soon as I crossed the border I felt like flinging...
If you expect anything like the stage version of "Call Me Mister," you'll be sadly disappointed. There are only a few pitiful vestiges of the revue, notably the "Going-Home Train" scene and the sketch about the Air Force's boy general. The plot concerns a G.I. in Japan...
In two months of battle experience, U.S. evaluation of the Chinese enemy has fluctuated widely. At first the Chinese seemed to burst from their Manchurian "sanctuary" like a limitless, indoctrinated, irresistible horde. Gradually they slowed down, passed from advance to a stubborn holding action. Weaknesses became more apparent: deficiencies in...