Word: truck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took a little time to get "rolling with the punch" (one of last week's favorite expressions in Korea). In the first Red onrush, some allied units were overrun or cut off-notably Britain's gallant Gloucesters (see Men at War). Allied ambulances raced past southbound truck columns that rolled, bumper to bumper, through choking clouds of dust...
...officer, "are already full of Chinese dead, and we intend to keep adding to the piles." The rumble and flash of the guns could be heard and seen almost all the way to Seoul. By the light of parachute flares, U.S. night-flying planes searched out Red troop concentrations, truck columns and artillery parks, smashed what they could. But the Reds did not stop...
...more feet long, capable of handling jets and bombers-for staging between Manchuria and the front lines. In the field, before the Red drive began, the U.N. forces had taken elaborate precautions against air attack. Radar surveillance and blackout discipline were intensified; motor pools and supply dumps were dispersed ; truck drivers were ordered to keep their distance in convoys, jeep drivers to remove the tops of their jeeps...
Clark said that the popular assumption that the army remakes truck drivers into cooks and vice-versa is false, and that 90% of the men are assigned properly...
Last year a student competed in formal attire but rode most of the way in a moving van by a separate route. Shortly after he got out of the truck near the finish line, he became lost and so finished a disqualified 12th...