Word: x
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate the Eighth Army and the X Corps were approaching each other, a junction seemed almost certain this week. After that, the trend of battle would depend on: 1) how many North Koreans would be caught in the southwestern corner; 2) whether these troops would be able to fight or filter north through the Allied line (the U.S. spearheads driving up from the southeast naturally had no solid line behind them); 3) whether the Communists would be able and willing to fight in the northeastern corner of South Korea, with whatever troops could be regrouped in that area. If they...
Firemen carried Rodman out by stretcher and took him to Stillman Infirmary, where he will be held for X-rays...
...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...
Then the naval bombardment began, and he raised his glasses to watch. The planes came. We could see the streaks of their rockets, and minutes later hear the booms. General Almond, the new X Corps commander, came up. "Good morning, General," he said. "How are you?" "I don't see how I could be better," answered MacArthur...
...Doyle, amphibious attack commander, and on Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the Seventh Fleet, who softened up the shore defenses and got the troops to the beaches. After all troops were ashore, the ground fighting would be taken over by General Almond as commander of MacArthur's X Corps. Between times, the heaviest responsibility for the success or failure of Operation Chromite lay with General Smith's marines...