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Word: tomahawk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon sun beat down on the hawklike face of Captain Lewis Millett of South Dartmouth, Mass., on husky, handsome Master Sergeant Stanley Adams of Olathe, Kans., on the nervous stare of Captain Raymond Harvey of Pasadena, Calif., on the stony and disfigured mask of Sergeant Einar Ingman of Tomahawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Proud Moment for Me | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...rolled into battered Munsan through vicious enemy rifle and machine-gun fire. Throughout the night, Reds to the north and east shelled and mortared paratroopers and rangers who were stalking the rear elements of a North Korean motorized regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue, green, yellow and white cargo chutes and mottled green personnel chutes, dropped the day before, gleamed vividly against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: With Task Force Growdon | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Methodical ground advance would probably not catch this 60,000. On Friday, General Ridgway staged Operation Tomahawk to do the job. A fleet of Flying Boxcars and C-46s dropped some 3,300 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team (11th Airborne Division), plus attached Rangers, on the flatlands around Munsan, 22 miles northwest of Seoul and twelve miles below the 38th parallel. Under Brigadier General Frank S. Bowen Jr., it was the second and biggest paradrop of the Korean war; the first took place last October north of Pyongyang (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Again at the Parallel | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Last year, exhibitors cured the box-office anemia of 20th Century-Fox's A Ticket to Tomahawk by changing the title to The Sheriff's Daughter. Last week, despite good reviews, the same studio's U.S.S. Teakettle proved surprisingly anemic in its first bookings. The company decided to yank the movie out of release, give it the same kind of tonic. New title: You're In the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marquee Appeal | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...battle of the Horseshoe, Chief Junaluska [of the Cherokees] had saved the life of Andrew Jackson by driving his tomahawk into the skull of a Creek warrior who had Jackson at his mercy. When Andrew Jackson became President ... he repaid this debt by ordering the Cherokee removal. So you see that even celluloid cliches have their counterpart in real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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