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...North Koreans kept on coming; the Americans fought to keep their own pace, when they were driven back, to orderly retirement. It was a furious assault, and soundly based on the lessons of military history; the North Koreans were trying to turn a stubbornly fought retreat into a rout, seize the Pusan beachhead area, destroy the U.N. forces...
...were savagely contested; Walker directed one himself, under fire on the riverbank. Within days, the XX Corps lanced through the battleground that had been dismally fought over for years in World War I-Reims, Epernay, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun. Walker pushed on across the Meuse, but with the enemy in rout, Patton ordered him to "sit down" 40 miles short of Metz. The Third Army, which needed 450,000 gallons of automotive fuel a day, was almost...
...195th game of the Harvard-Yale baseball series went to Harvard yesterday afternoon when the Crimson scored a 17 to 3 rout over the visitors from New Haven. It was the 93rd Catnap triumph, achieved before a partisan crowd of 6700 reunions...
When Ted loped to the dugout after dropping an easy fly ball in the sixth inning of a 13-to-4 Red Sox rout, the fans loosed a chorus of derisive disapproval. Raging, Outfielder Williams responded by waggling his fingers defiantly at the crowd. In the second game (which Boston also lost) it happened again...
Making a comeback from last week's rout at Williamstown, the varsity ten kept the pressure on Dartmouth most of the game...