Word: spluttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military Teletypes that morning began to splutter with the news: North Korean Communists had invaded South Korea. General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo alerted the 24th and the other three U.S. divisions-in Japan to brace themselves for a Communist invasion of the islands. Dean, who had been military governor of South Korea two years earlier, was not surprised when the ill-equipped South Korean constabulary fled before the Communist tanks. Following the first news of the Red advance, Foot Soldier Dean did not think that it could be halted merely by air and sea aid to the South...
...Bangkok's streets the Americans could hear the pop and splutter of firecrackers. Thousands of Siam's Chinese (a vigorous, influential one-sixth of the country's 18 million inhabitants) were celebrating the Chinese New Year-and the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty...