Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before the big push in Korea, U.S. casualties totaled 17,220 men. Last week's Defense Department figures, dated Sept. 22, were already higher than the total for bloody Saipan (15,840), and almost up to those for the whole North African campaign (18,558). The breakdown...
...slowed down and stopped. Under constant and growing harassment from the air, it looked as though the North Koreans were running out of tanks and ammunition. Walker said something about their "last gasp." But the appearance of Communist weakness was illusory. The invaders were saving up for the big push, in the first two weeks of September-which really was their last gasp...
...unpleasant answer could be that the Reds . . . might, not want to push us off the map yet; if they wait a few more weeks, we will have brought to Korea the biggest part of our front-line fighting force . . . Then, a real all-out offensive, in which the enemy commits all his reserves, plus up to 200,000 China-trained countrymen, plus his planes . . . could actually wipe out a major part of our trained and equipped ground forces...
...There is no question of the illegality of the order under the Constitution," DoGugliemo insisted. "We can't push citizens around like that. The Council has no rights along those lines and the seven men who voted for the order know...
...University's Far Eastern scholars unanimously favored extension of the U.N. military campaign beyond the 38th parallel. Reischauer put the issue plainly. "The only conceivable military tactic," he said, "is to push on... in fact, if we stopped, few Asiatics would understand...