Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...24th Infantry Division and the British brigade then launched a limited attack of their own, to deepen and widen their bridgehead over the Chong-chon. The charging doughfeet made gains up to four miles, and found 600 enemy dead, presumably killed by Allied artillery. East of the marines, the 7th Division's commander, Major General David Barr, said his reconnaissance indicated he could go forward 30 miles, but he was not going to do so until his flanks were secure. On the east coast, the R.O.K. Capitol Division, operating with horse cavalry, scored a long advance north of Kilchu...
...month that Tibet has been under Chinese Red attack, much of the news from the roof of the world has come from yak-drivers, muleteers and porters. Their hearsay and gossip, picked up at Kalim-pong, India's gateway to Tibet, became grist for a notable rumor mill (see PRESS) that had Lhasa lost, the Dalai Lama in flight, his army destroyed, his lamaseries in turmoil...
...began. With Chinese Communist soldiers and equipment pouring from Manchuria into North Korea, every bridge across the Yalu River became a target. By the hundreds, U.S. jets and piston-powered planes bombed, rocketed and machine-gunned roads, supply points and assembly areas. The tempo of the allied air attack brought Russian-made jets (see below) racing across the border into dogfights with U.S. jets and piston planes. The Reds lost 48 planes in ten days. Maximum demolition and fire bomb attacks were delivered by 6-293 upon the key river-crossing cities of Sinuiju (temporary North Korean capital), Uiju...
Died. Oscar of the Waldorf (Oscar Tschirky), 84, burly, famed major-domo for half a century; of a heart attack; at his country estate near New Paltz, N.Y. (which he bequeathed as a retirement place for chefs). Never a chef himself, Oscar had an artist's passion for selecting and serving food & drink. At 16, he got a job as busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan...
...Brown captain and center halfback Dave Michael sparked a defense which prevented the Harvard attack from taking a single clear close-in shot during the four regular 22 minute periods and two five minute overtimes...