Word: buildup
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...came the first big decision: General MacArthur decided to force the enemy to deploy and he succeeded. In some of the heaviest battles of the whole campaign, at the famed "Bowling Alley" outside Taegu, the Reds were stopped cold. With that victory, the U.N. forces bought time for a buildup behind the hastily thrown-up defense perimeter around Pusan...
...pattern of war in Korea last week: small-scale skirmishing, punctuated by a few violent flurries where larger units met. Screening their buildup for a new offensive, the Chinese and North Koreans slowed down the cautiously probing Eighth Army to a snail's pace or stopped it altogether...
MARSHALL: "I assumed . . . that if we started on that [MacArthur's] procedure ... we would immediately have whatever retaliation they were able to effect. There [has been a] buildup of Communist China air power which has been very evident for several months [one and a half lines deleted...
...fraction of their efficiency. They are, in effect, by being confined to the narrow area of the battleground of Korea . . . merely performing that function which would be regarded as tactical support of the infantry line. The great strategic concept of stopping the supplies to troops, of preventing the buildup of troops . . . the disorganization of transportation lines-all of the uses which . . . Navy and air are supposed to do-are not permitted over there...
...forces did not sit back and wait for the next blow. They sent out patrols and powerful armored forces to seek out and harry the enemy, disrupt his buildup. In the center, the U.N. forces actually pushed their main line forward several thousand yards, to give the scouting and harassing parties a more favorable advance base...