Word: roadblockers
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...armored rescue forces broke up an enemy roadblock in the 2nd's rear, and helped the division re-form a solid line below Chunchon. On the fourth day, enemy pressure slackened while the Chinese removed their thousands of dead and wounded from the battlefield. At week's end, they attacked again with 30,000 men. The onslaught was broken...
Committee should be "a roadblock to unwise, ill-timed, spendthrift, socialistic measures." In the vote, 152 Republicans, 92 Democrats restored the Rules Committee to its old authority; 44 of the Republicans were freshmen-a fair indication of the freshening winds of conservatism...
Four R.O.K. regiments, which had been mauled in the fighting farther north, found themselves cut off by an enemy roadblock. U.S. units broke up the roadblock, and the South Koreans got through to the Allied lines. Wonju was then attacked on three sides by the determined North Koreans, and seemed about to fall when an Allied counterattack saved it temporarily. Twenty-four hours later, the U.N. forces abandoned the town...
...marked by heavy casualties on both sides. After that, the Chinese tried to stop the marines by blowing a dam and a bridge, and by sporadic shooting from the sides of the road. Not once from Koto to the sea did the marines run into a massively defended roadblock. This, of course, was partly due to effective air help and to the 3rd Division's rescue force, which came up from Hungnam and cleared the lower part of the road. Nevertheless, the U.S. column was a force of 20,000 traveling through territory held by about 70,000 Chinese...
Enemy resistance seemed to be lessening. On their way to the junction, the 3rd's fighting men had dispersed one roadblock and nothing more was heard of the other three. One day 100 cold and famished Chinese came out of the hills and surrendered. Some said they were former Nationalist soldiers who had been dragooned into the Red army, and that they now wanted to join Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...