Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes and artillery gave the hill mass a thorough working over, but failed to dislodge the dug-in Reds. The ROKs counterattacked in a rain, without air support; they slipped and floundered on the greasy slopes, and were pinned down just short of the top. Angrily they counterattacked again, supported by a tremendous U.N. artillery shoot. They were met by withering small-arms fire and showers of grenades, and the Red artillery caught them in the open. "Human flesh could stand no more." wrote A.P. Correspondent John Randolph. "The little green-clad figures leaped and ran again, but this time...
...will make a thorough investigation of the MTA, and throw out the incompetents who have saddled its patrons with increased taxes and the 15-cent fare which Governor Dever four years ago promised would never come. Under a Republican Administration, I can promise that gasoline taxes will never be squandered on election-year shovel-leaners, and that inspection of contractors' work will not be so neglected that a faulty over pass collapses, endangering the lives of workers and bus passengers...
Despite last weekend's thorough drubbing at Hanover and Wednesday's disappointing tie with M.I.T., Bruce Munro is confident about his varsity soccer team's chances against Amherst this afternoon. The game will be played on the Business School Field...
Next day the cops checked Restorer Fey's apartment, and sure enough, there were 21 paintings and seven drawings. Fey was bundled off to jail and held incommunicado until the prosecutor could make a thorough investigation. At week's end, Dietrich Fey was still there, awaiting a formal charge; through his lawyer he issued a flat denial of Malskat's story. Malskat himself was at liberty, apparently ready and anxious to be the state's prime witness when & if a trial is called. And all through Germany, art collectors were making a quick, uneasy check...
...greater import than the hill itself was the fact that the new ROK army -which now outnumbers the U.S. and all other U.N. units combined-had proved itself a brave and effective fighting force. Twelve months ago, General Van Fleet began pulling the ROK units out of line for thorough training, regrouping and refitting. Recently, U.S. liaison officers have been saying that the ROKs had been metamorphosed into first-class infantry fighters. Without the test of battle, nobody could be sure. White Horse was the test...