Word: straggler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Help for Stragglers. The whole idea of "extending prosperity" to the farm, i.e., taking quick, corrective action to get all the good graph lines rising together-epitomizes Government's new role in the expanding economy. Harry Truman's Agriculture Department rushed to defend the farmer, was willing to commit him to eternal Government control in protecting farm income. Eisenhower, as the report shows it, sees the farmer as a blameless straggler in the general march to prosperity. Ike wants to get him back in line as soon as possible so that the farmer can march up the graph...
Behind one cluster of huts in a small gulch, the paratroopers had collected a bag of approximately 130 North Korean soldiers and a lone Chinese straggler. The P.W.s gaped at the drop zone, now bristling with the tanks, soldiers and guns of Task Force Growdon. Along the ridges and on the paddy fields within the paratroopers' perimeter lay some 300 dead North Korean Reds...