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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces on the west began pulling back early, but on the east, four days seem to have elapsed between the Red breakthrough and the order to the X Corps (7th and 3rd Divisions and the marines) to try to fight their way to the coast. At week's end, it seemed doubtful that the U.N. forces could get out of Korea without a very severe mauling...
Crucial Arena. On the X Corps' front, which covered all the rest of the looping Allied line to the east coast, the enemy showed no such fight. The marines, probing carefully north along both sides of the Changjin reservoir, took the town of Udam on a western arm of the lake. On the Yalu, the 7th Division, moving west, extended its river frontage to ten miles. On the east coast, South Koreans seized the important but ruined port of Chongjin, pushed on north...
Children with impressively styled cap guns and bejeweled double holsters (many tied to their thighs to facilitate a fast draw) were so commonplace that those without them seemed a little underdressed, and those who still carried such outmoded armament as X-Ray Guns or Atomic Disintegrators, hopelessly oldfashioned. When firing, they sometimes seemed a little confused by their multi-programmed backgrounds; instead of just crying "Bang!" like older generation's, they imitated rockets and/or ricocheting bullets ("Ptche-e-e-e-e-e-w"), enormous steel springs ("Boing-oing-oing!"), or machine guns...
Once, to show how fear affects the human body, Poole had a scientist toss a king snake at a woman who had been wired for reaction; the audiometer recorded her leaping heartbeats. Another night, X rays were taken of a woman's lungs, developed and held up for the TV audience to inspect. Review viewers have seen how polluted water looks under a microscope, how plastics are made, chemists trained, and atoms frozen...
Brown will certainly have to depend on its own passing game as well as the strong running plays which can develop from the "X-T." On one of those, the "X" back (right-half) cuts diagonally across into the left side of the line. The quarterback fakos a handoff, and then gives to the fullback, who has charged straight over right guard...