Word: widens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...24th Infantry Division and the British brigade then launched a limited attack of their own, to deepen and widen their bridgehead over the Chong-chon. The charging doughfeet made gains up to four miles, and found 600 enemy dead, presumably killed by Allied artillery. East of the marines, the 7th Division's commander, Major General David Barr, said his reconnaissance indicated he could go forward 30 miles, but he was not going to do so until his flanks were secure. On the east coast, the R.O.K. Capitol Division, operating with horse cavalry, scored a long advance north of Kilchu...
...Dato Onn ran into diehard opposition from his own U.M.N.O. He resigned from the organization, stepped up his barnstorming throughout the peninsula. The U.M.N.O. recently convened again, re-elected Dato Onn as head, endorsed his program. Last week legislation was under way in the Federation Legislative Council to widen the Chinese franchise...
...Calling on all nations to refrain from action which might widen the Korean conflict...
...hairbreadth 100 m.p.h., with Masetti just behind. On the tenth lap, Masetti gunned to the lead, scored the fastest round of the day: 118 m.p.h. But the effort burned him out. By the 16th lap, halfway through the 200-kilometer race, Duke regained the lead and began to widen the gap with each succeeding round. Four and a half miles from the finish, he was leading Masetti by almost two miles. That was when Giovanni Curli suddenly waved his big checkered flag, signaling the end of the race. Startled but obedient, contestants throttled back, stopped, heard the amazing explanation...
Aside from the fact that attack requires more men than defense, when the projected counteroffensive got under way supply lines would lengthen and the front would rapidly widen out. The manpower requirement seemed to be about twelve to 15 divisions-not bobtailed Johnsonized divisions, but fully manned. In Europe the U.S. was taking on another commitment of five to ten divisions (see below), which were as necessary there, to fortify the free world's position, as the actual fighting divisions in Korea...