Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat to Kyongju, communications hub of the northeast corner. The enemy got to within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull the 24th Division (first U.S. division committed in Korea) from a rest area and send it back to battle in the northeast. The 24th's commander, Major General John Church, looked very sick of the war when he conferred...
...black & white by adding an adapter (estimated cost: $25). To get the same telecasts in color would require an additional converter (estimated cost: $50). Explained the FCC report: "It would not be in the public interest to deprive 40 million American families of color television in order to spare the owners of 7,000,000 sets the expense required for adaptation...
Hemingstein was by this time with an infantry division which he loved [the 4th] and which had three fine regiments, wonderful artillery and good battalion of armor and excellent spare parts. Hemingstein was only a guest of this division, but he tried to make himself useful. He was with them through the Normandy breakthrough, Schnee Eifel, Hürtgen and the defense of Luxembourg...
...boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until normal supply lines could be set up wherever they might...
Author Loughlin's first novel, Helix, was a highly original sea story about engine-room hands (TIME, June 9, 1947). A Private Stair sails into deeper fictional water and for most of the passage keeps way on. The writing is taut, perhaps too spare to make DeCarlo's sudden switch entirely credible, and sometimes there is a smart-alecky playing with words and dialogue. But Loughlin has the good novelist's knack of suggesting more than he says and keeping his story moving with an air of inevitability. He is one young writer who owes...