Word: sandbag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sealing Off. U.N. commanders, who had expected to pay heavily for Pyongyang, found the city dotted with carefully prepared 76-mm. gun positions and innumerable sandbag barricades. But many of the positions had been left unmanned, and most of the Red soldiers who had been assigned to defend Pyongyang quickly threw up their hands. On the roads running north from Pyongyang, U.N. pilots spotted some 20,000 North Korean troops, some fleeing afoot, some by truck or by oxcart...
...intersection we slowed down to pass a sandbag barricade. The crowds lining the street surged out around us, offered us sesame cookies and handshakes. Farther down the street a South Korean cavalryman put his horse through a victory prance while he waved his rifle aloft, a Communist battle flag impaled on his bayonet...
...sandbag used as a counterweight accidentally crashed at the feet of Ethel Waters, star of The Member of the Wedding, as she took her curtain call in a Broadway theater. Unfazed, even though the weight had missed her by inches, she quoted a line from the hymn she sings in the play: "His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches...