Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them from a respectful distance with antitank guns. After that, it was clear that Kumsong was finished as an enemy base. There was no need for Van Fleet actually to occupy it until he could do so with a minimum of casualties. This week, after another bold tank raid in which the U.S. armor braved enemy mortar fire, a U.S. patrol moved up to within 600 yards of the blasted rail and road junction. Chinese | resistance seemed to have melted...
Perhaps remembering last year's CRIMSON parody of The Daily Dartmouth, which "reported" that Coach Tuss McLaughry was resigning as head coach, Dartmouth undergraduates have long been mapping a raid on Cambridge this fall...
...identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree) of their community's seamy side and shoddy behavior...
...movie, Rommel is shown too seldom on the battlefield, and then only in defeat. The script, by Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson, has the competence of journalistic history, but most of the excitement is packed into the picture's opening moments, during an ill-fated British Commando raid on Rommel's North African headquarters...
Music in the Air. In Birmingham, civil defense officials decided to install more air-raid sirens after a test alert was drowned out in Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's department store by a set of chimes playing Brahms's Lullaby...