Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mighty battleship Missouri steamed far up Korea's eastern shore, fired 16-in. gun salvos on Samchok, important port and rail town. South Korean commandos raided the beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
...Koreans intended to complete it, and like the Lord High Executioner in The Mikado, it seemed logical therefore to include it on the maps they made up in honor of the new republic. Furthermore, they even included train schedules for this line in their master timetables. Actually, not a rail has been laid...
California. Pasadena cops writing an examination for sergeant's ratings found themselves unable to define such low-down underworld terms as gopher (safeblower), third rail (incorruptible official), derrick (shoplifter) and kite (a letter sneaked past the warden). Crooks don't talk that way in Pasadena, they complained. The chief of police agreed, ordered all "detective fiction crime terms" stricken from the exam. Said one cop who got a higher score than his mates: "I'd read a short story in the Saturday Evening Post the night before, so I knew most of the answers...
...week's end, they had put three regiments-a full division-across at Changnyong, roadblocked a secondary supply route and threatened the rail-and-road line from Taegu to Pusan. This week the brave, battered 24th Division, which had been fighting steadily for six weeks, moved to the counterattack behind hard-hitting Pershing tanks. The division commander, Major General John H. Church,* said he intended to "drive the enemy back across the river or destroy him on this side." But it was not certain that John Church and his men had enough tomatoes for that...
Critics and most visitors praised the show, but a few found it bewildering. Looking at a red-lacquered altar from Japan, a woman from Germany exclaimed: "I just couldn't pray properly before such a thing!" Since a Japanese might have equal difficulty at a Gothic altar rail, the objection pretty well illustrated Monsignor Costantini's point: that native art may serve faith better than the alien kind...