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...Antitank Crew ..." The U.S. coaches failed to foresee the devastating psychological effect of enemy armor on the tankless South Koreans. In the crucial battle for Uijongbu (see map), 40 Communist tanks came down the valley road in close-packed single file. If this column had been destroyed, the Red offensive might have been crippled at the start. A sorrowing U.S. military adviser commented later: "If one antitank crew had been able to pick off the lead and rear tanks, the 38 others would have been sitting ducks" (i.e., immobilized by wrecks at both ends of the column). Nothing...
...little boys, in pot & pan armor, duel with wooden spoons for the right to be her king. When both of them are finally stretched out on the floor dead, little Lucy Willow sighs and sings Author Stein's closing lines...
Just outside St. Louis, he also built himself a turreted, U-shaped mansion with an armor-filled hunting room and a kitchen that could serve a 40-place dinner at the drop of a bottle cap. One story has it that once, when driving in his open coach near the brewery, Adolphus waved graciously back to admiring friends and retainers on the sidewalk and said to a friend: "You see, choost like a king...
Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...
...vote, Communist deputies put on a riotous show that was even more violent and abusive than last week's. Cracked a Foreign Office official who must attend this week's debate on ratification of the Franco-American military aid agreement: "Where could I borrow a suit of armor...