Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night in the gold-domed Statehouse, before Massachusetts' legislators, General MacArthur made a speech which, despite all his familiar oratorical skill, disconcerted many of his admirers. His most surprising assertion: that "the outstanding impression which emerges [from the Korean war] is the utter uselessness of the enormous sacrifice." The original "high moral purpose," he said, had "yielded to the timidity and fear of our leaders" because they had hesitated to answer the attack of the Chinese Communists effectively. "Appeasement thereafter became the policy of war on the battlefield...
Nobody was more surprised than Walcott himself. Back in his corner, Jersey Joe was so choked with emotion that at first he could hardly utter a word. He slid to his knees, and only his bustling, happy handlers kept him from collapsing to the canvas. But at the TV mike he recovered and delivered a muscularly religious sermon. As he later told reporters: "I've worked for 21 years for this night. I read my Bible before the fight I prayed between every round. I asked God to help...
...could to make its handful of B-36s look like a mighty fleet. Even some Congressmen were shocked by the leak. Said Senator Dick Russell, who presided over the MacArthur hearing and did his level best to protect official secrets: "It is difficult to conceive of such utter lack of responsibility . . . [This] might well be the cause of World...
...Utter Defeat." The Red line was laid down this week by the loudest organ of Peking propaganda, the People's Daily: "Heavy blows dealt by the Korean people's army and Chinese volunteers have put the enemy in such dilemma that an armistice now becomes possible." The Red version of what happened in Korea is simple: The South Koreans started the war a year ago with an attack on North Korea. The North Koreans quickly counterattacked, whereupon "American imperialists," coming to the aid of their "Syngman Rhee puppets," drove into North Korea. At that point Chinese "volunteers" entered...
Unseeing Search. A pretty, 17-year-old Maryland high-school girl named Carolyn Jane Barker was sitting in the car with her boy friend, 19-year-old Lawrence Gilbert. The pair-interrupted just as the boy had presented an engagement ring-were too startled to utter a sound. Irwin yanked out his pistol. "Drive me to Virginia," he said, dramatically, "the FBI is after...