Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pause in the Eighth Army's pursuit in Korea (see below) underlined Lie's words. London eagerly approved; Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison declared that a "psychological moment" had arrived for a truce. Into this flurry of wishful activity Ambassador Ernest A. Gross, U.S. delegate to the U.N., dropped a timely reminder. "Peace efforts," he said, "thus far have been entirely from one side-the U.N. side...
...pushed into North Korea, regaining almost all the ground for which the Chinese had paid so heavily in blood. Said Van Fleet: "The 38th parallel has no significance in the present tactical situation. It means nothing to me. The Eighth Army will go wherever the situation dictates in hot pursuit of the enemy. We intend to exploit every advantage in carrying out our objective to find and kill them...
CAREER: Iowa-born, 1904; West Point, class of 1928; served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
...unpublished notebooks of Rilke," says Potter, "there is an unpublished phrase which might be our text, '. . . if you're not one up (Blitzleiscti) you're . . . one down (Rotzleisch).' " In his constant pursuit of One-Upness, the sound Lifeman first of all makes his opponent (i.e., everybody) feel like an idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown...
...pursuit was dropped, partly because of the allies, but also because "by the time we had gotten their reactions, our forces were south of the 38th parallel . . . where we had 200 miles in which to deal with the [enemy...