Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past the dried river beds and bare hills of inland Korea -country that reminded Walker of his familiar territory of west Texas. Here & there along the road the general stopped. Sometimes he smiled and politely asked enlisted men for information, such as the location of regimental or battalion command posts. Occasionally he turned on his parade-ground voice in a blast of censure. A luckless 1st Cavalry shavetail...
Into the Sea? Two weeks before the North Koreans struck, tough, shark-mouthed Walton Walker said to his command: "Your mission and mine is to maintain the splendid Eighth Army in the state of readiness which will assure success in any role we may be called on to assume. In this I am confident we shall not fail...
...better part of ten days, the North Korean air force had been lying low. During the war's first two weeks, busy Russian-built Yak fighters and Ilyushin assault planes had taken a beating from U.S. jet planes. Then the Northern command apparently decided to husband its planes and airmen. U.S. observers guessed that the Reds had either withdrawn their planes to Manchurian bases, or had hidden them in underground hangars built into the Korean mountainside...
...Korean war. Answering a request from U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie for ground troops, Foreign Minister Hipólito Jésus Paz replied last week: "In accordance with our desire to comply with our obligations as a member of the United Nations ... we are waiting for the unified command to enter into direct communication with the Argentine government...
...time war came, friendly, fresh-faced Newsman Fielder had moved on, was working on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private early in 1942, was soon commissioned and assigned to train officer candidates at Quantico, Va. Later, he was given command of a company of the sth Marine Division. Then the Marine Corps assigned Captain Fielder to perfect his Chinese at the University of California. When World War II ended, Fielder went back to his true calling, took a job as night city editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco, hoping...