Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After spending two nights in the U.S. legation at the height of the battle, Jones moved back to his unheated fourth-floor room in the shell-pocked Duna Hotel. Phone service was disrupted, but the Western correspondents were able to file brief pooled dispatches on the only Teletype circuit to Vienna left intact. To get out the full, running narrative of Hungary's deathwatch, Jones ran off five carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived...
...Preparatory School and learned to speak a vocabulary in which "first" is still "foist." When he came to Harvard, he knew only six people in his class, but he widened his acquaintance by trying out for football manager (unsuccessfully), stroking a 150-lb. crew in his sophomore year (his shell got tangled in high grass during a race against Middlesex School), and writing for the Lampoon...
...Unchanging Ghost. Today, for better or worse, the U.N. is far more representative of the world as it is than the U.N. has ever been. Last week in a starkly modernistic, shell-shaped hall overlooking New York City's East River, the U.N. General Assembly opened its eleventh regular session by admitting three new nations -Morocco. Tunisia and the Sudan-and formally welcoming the 16 other new members* hastily admitted in the closing days of the 1955 session. The Assembly's new president. Siam's Prince Wan Waithayakon. grandson of King Rama IV of The King...
...Middle East crisis flared and flickered last week, the New York Stock Exchange reflected the developments hour by hour. Led by big international oils like Gulf, Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil (N.J.), some stocks bounced up more than two points in an hour, then slipped back. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average had dipped to 480.67 for a 4.68-point loss. Only steels were consistent gainers, and there the star was Lukens Steel, makers of heavy steel plate for ships. Jumping as much as 12 points a session, it shot 34½ points higher during...
...still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with a wounded comrade playing possum on a shell-swept hillside while Chinese attackers swarmed over and past them. When dawn came, the two Smiths calmly brought in the wounded man, went back to the fight...