Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...
...Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often upended into cactus plants by the wind. "It was hard work," says Ziegler, "but it was beautiful. There were many trout streams, and Isabella...
...week on item 2 on the agenda-the cease-fire line-which gave rise to some premature optimism. The Reds suddenly proposed a line which almost coincided with the U.N. proposal along most of the front. The Red concession meant that the allies could keep their hard-won mountain terrain (including Heartbreak Ridge) in the center and east. The Communists also agreed to the simile buffer zone along the line suggested...
...flying, slow (85 to 95 m.p.h.) 'copters-also known as "whirlybirds," "egg beaters," "windmills"-would be sitting ducks against hostile fighter planes, or, over flat terrain, against determined antiaircraft fire. But in Korea, the U.N. controls the air over the front lines, and the same mountains that make the 'copters so useful enable them to hug the valleys and screen themselves behind ridgelines. They have proved their versatility. For months they have been used as flying ambulances, as aerial telephone-wire layers, for command tours of the front, for quick shipments of emergency supplies and weapons. Emboldened, marines...
...enemy's big push, if it comes in the next week or two, will probably be launched in the flatter terrain of the west. From the central mountains to the U.N.'s western anchor on the Imjin, troops and unit commanders braced themselves every day and every night...