Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...clock," said a U.S. major, "My George [G] Company was hit from three sides, the left, right and front, by about three companies of Chinese. One of my patrols picked the first ones up about 150 yards out. The Chinese charged in and overwhelmed us with a real mass attack. About three out of every ten of them were loaded with automatic weapons of some sort-Tommy guns, burp guns or automatic carbines. Others carried .25-caliber Jap rifles. They were all loaded down with grenades...
After 48 hours of concentrated action on the shoulder of the Red Chinese wedge the Turks were short of food and ammunition, fighting with knives and fists, hurling stones at endless waves of Chinese attackers. Yet U.S. tanks that went forward to rescue trapped Turkish units found the Turks preparing to attack. Ordered to pull back from positions where they were surrounded by the swarming Chinese, the Turkish commander replied in amazement, "Withdraw? Why withdraw? We are killing lots of them...
...once elite R.O.K. army's II Corps (R.O.K. 6th, 7th and 8th Divisions) on the Tokchon-Yongdong-Okchon line disintegrated under the first Chinese attack. R.O.K. troops threw away their weapons and ran; some fled 20 miles southward in the first 24 hours of the attack...
Within two days, petitions had gone up in all the Houses, calling for a return to the old rules, and the CRIMSON returned to the attack with another editorial, urging that "the bawling brat must be thrown into the lap of (President Conant) immediately after his return from England." Mr. Conant was abroad recovering from the rigors of the tercentenary...
After a race riot, in which colored gangs jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...