Word: battlefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice, says the Army, the priority system will operate all the way from battlefront aid stations to rear-area hospitals, with immediate-treatment cases going first and delayed-treatment following as facilities are available. The expectant cases will not, in most instances, be moved from where they lie, will get sedatives or opiates...
...politician and statesman second. The argument which did most to convince him that the Indo-China war must be stopped was that France could not afford it. His chief ambition in North Africa is to stabilize the area, so that France can concentrate on what he calls the "real battlefront": eco nomic reform...
...Humphries, in those days the stentorian dean of sports announcers. Less than a year later. Stockly wrote his first cover story-on Astronomer Sir Arthur S. Eddington. For the past three years he has been TIME'S expert on the Korean war, writing most of the battlefront stories about that area...
...with the truce seemingly so near, were the Reds still attacking so fiercely on the battlefront? U.N. observers could think of several Communist motivations: 1) to wipe out a discomforting U.N. salient and get more territory for themselves; 2) to gain prestige in the closing hours; 3) to punish the ROKs-or rather to punish Rhee by bloodying the ROKs-and convince them they could get nowhere against Communist power if they fought alone...
...hardly showed himself to the troops, and he evaded newsmen. Once he got into the news by accident when Communists shot up a DC-3 in which he was making a low-flying survey of enemy lines. Then, last week General Navarre completed his review of the Indo-China battlefront and made one of the most aggressive declarations yet to come from a French commander in that theater. The late Marshal de Lattre had said: "We will not let go of one inch of terrain." Said Navarre: "We will take the offensive...