Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started, whether it should have been carried into China or stopped at the 38th parallel, whether Van Fleet or MacArthur or the White House had the right solution-and they don't pretend to know all the answers. All that binds them is their common understanding of the steep ridges and the stinking paddies and the swift night attacks from the north...
...commonest form of heart attack is a coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in an artery supplying the heart muscle checks the blood flow and starves the muscle. To overcome this handicap, the heart must labor excessively; like a car on a steep grade in high gear, it pings alarmingly and may stall. A noted Canadian psychiatrist suggested last week that the basic cause of the trouble may be found, not where doctors have been looking, in the patient's physical exertions or his arteries, but in his emotional problems...
...third MIG and brought it down; ist Lieut. Harry Jones Jr., 23, got another. Then at 1,500 ft., Wingman William F. Schrimsher, 24, a 2nd lieutenant from Alabama, got on the tail of a fifth MIG. The Red pilot shoved the throttle wide open, went into a steep left bank trying to get away. Instead, the MIG snapped on its back, went into a spin and crashed into a hillside. Thus did one more U.S. pilot bag his first MIG "the easy way"-without firing a shot. Could Schrimsher's F-86 have performed the maneuver that crashed...
...Marshall describes the tragedy of defeat. The crescendo is reached in the last 80 pages, which describe the pullout of what was left of the 2nd Division. By this time it was every man for himself. For six miles, men and vehicles ran a one-road gauntlet lined by steep hills occupied by the Chinese. The valley became a shooting gallery and a common grave. Heroism was as common as death, but heroism was not enough. What broke out of the gauntlet was perhaps the most completely smashed division in U.S. military history...
...best poems. Those who want the full story of his life and work must turn to one of the biographies, but A Hopkins Reader is a fine introduction to a poet's poet-and to an intellectual Christian who cut a bright, if often steep, path of his own in searching the love...