Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...committee will start work at its first meeting tomorrow in Boston. It will study the protection of buildings against bomb blasts and will prepare designs to provide greater resistance to air attack...
...roads were clogged with other supplies, and the cold weather itself was hampering supply operations. Last month, when the weather was warm and the Chinese had not yet intervened, corps and division commanders had clamored incessantly for food and ammunition to keep the mop-up rolling. After the Chinese attack, the first call was for fighting supplies to repel the new enemy. Winter clothing shipments had taken a low priority...
...received his winter issue before the first nip of cold, there would have been suffering. Units of the 7th Division, which had winter clothing, were fighting last week in 20-below-zero cold. The cold brought tears which froze on the men's faces. After a U.S. attack near the Manchurian border, medical officers reported as many casualties from cold as from enemy action. Only quick work by litter teams prevented those wounded by gunfire from freezing to death...
Communist Ho Chi Minh's army, after seven weeks of success, has the French forces in northern Indo-China bottled up around the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. A full-scale attack is expected. Are the French strong enough to hold out? Seeking an answer to this and related questions, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs flew into Hanoi last fortnight...
...threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements...