Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles beyond North Conway lies the Jackson area where trails on Black and Thorn Mountains provide heavy snow covers and a varsity of open and wooded terrain. Black is served by a 3500-foot Alpine lift which brings skiers to trails for the novice as well as the expert. At nearby Thorn there is a 4,000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows. Thorn has been improved with the widening of the practice slope and the addition of a new expert trail...
...French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some places at battalion...
...regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...
...French were regrouping in a beachhead around Hanoi and the nearby port of Haiphong. They were pulling out of difficult mountain and jungle terrain for the flat, open, rice-rich lower Red River valley. They hoped to hold a perimeter extending 160 miles around the river's mouth. They were waiting for U.S. tanks and planes and troops from France...
...They Like Girls' Pictures." Roy Manring and his platoon were defending a position near Hill 303, a bleak bump in the terrain east of the Naktong River, a few miles northeast of battered Waegwan, when the enemy began to infiltrate the U.S. lines. Roy's platoon leader asked battalion headquarters for reinforcements, and was told that 60 South Korean soldiers would move up shortly...