Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assault on Triangle went badly, and the 7th's doughfeet were pinned on the steep, sandy slopes. Eventually they drove the Chinese off the top and dug in behind barbed wire and sandbags, hauled up on a hastily built cable railway. Thus protected, their machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese. Their mortar-men put smoke shells on Papa-san to blind the enemy spotters there, and U.N. planes blasted the Chinese assembly points. This week the Reds drove the Americans and ROKs back in a desperate night counterattack; but when day came, the U.N. troops...
...each class, Miss Frances asks her pupils to get their mothers, then explains what will be needed next day (some clay, an empty milk bottle, or a paper bag with which to make a Halloween mask). After that, she signs off, while hundreds of tiny hands wave a frantic farewell at hundreds of TV screens. "My," exclaimed one little girl at the end of school last week, "I think Miss Frances just loves us children to pieces...
...pleasant thing to see vests selling for two bits, and they actually do in some places--not in Rangoon, but right in Filene's Basement. As the buying wave on vests increases, however, two bit vests are bound to become scarce...
...were to get rid of Communist propaganda in the Boston Public Library, you would have to withdraw from it the Boston Post itself because it quotes what Stalin has said on various occasions . . . The oversimplified position that you can just throw out all Communist propaganda by a wave of the hand ... is not a simple solution. It is a simpleton's solution...
McCurdy figures he can win or lose his varsity race depending on how his second wave of runners finish. Juniors Hal Gerry and Hubie Maguire, his two standouts, should be up with the winners. Trailing them should come the second pair of his big four juniors, Captain Emil San Soucie and Bruce Phillips...