Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Exposed to relentless hostile fire," he read, "[Chambers] coolly reorganized his battle-weary men, inspiring them to heroic efforts by his own valor and leading them in an attack on the critical, impregnable high ground from which the enemy was pouring an increasing volume of fire . . ." For eight hours on that Feb. 19, 1945, Jumping Joe had concentrated a lifetime's cunning, shrewdness and bravery on silencing the murderous Japanese guns, had finally been carried away under fire, blasted by an enemy machine gun. His was the 431st Medal of Honor of World War II, the Both...
...This is an Office of Civilian Defense sound truck," he cried into the mike. "Unidentified airplanes approaching New York City. All residents black out. Prepare for atomic attack!" Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound. The windows of the Gordons' third-floor apartment-like those of most of the apartments around it-were open. The results of his announcement on the teeming Bronx exceeded Stanley's fondest expectations...
...triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...
More than twelve hours after the attack, the relief columns gave up. By that time more than 500 cavalrymen had filtered through the Red lines to safety. To the men still on the ridge went orders to get out as best they could...
...India's interest was foreign-inspired. Warned Mao: "No foreign interference will be tolerated." The Indian Prime Minister expressed "amazement" at China's allegations. "At no time," Nehru said in reply, "has any foreign influence been brought to bear upon India in regard to Tibet." The Red attack against a "peaceful people," said Nehru in his best progressive school manner, had "greatly added to the tensions of the world and to the drift towards general...