Word: datedness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Even before the big push in Korea, U.S. casualties totaled 17,220 men. Last week's Defense Department figures, dated Sept. 22, were already higher than the total for bloody Saipan (15,840), and almost up to those for the whole North African campaign (18,558). The breakdown:
Like millions of other civilians-turned-soldiers, Ben Isaacs became hardened to combat and began to pull his weight. But his ingrown, slit-focus view of life kept him on sour emotional rations. Face of a Hero is less a novel than a first-person recital of discontent: Ben'...
The earliest trials were held once a year in Newgate in a building which dated from 1190. Later, in 1550, when Newgate had become too pest-ridden for the judges' personal comfort, the first of three successive Old Baileys was built next door. The two institutions were to stand...
A Matter of Hours. "Where was our Intelligence?" roared New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges. Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, produced a secret report dated June 20 describing intense activity north of the 38th parallel. It warned that the Communists were "capable" of launching...
The decision should not have been a surprise, since the Supreme Court had handed down a similar ruling against the state of California three years ago. But in Texas, the news struck like a tornado. Texans protested that the state's title to submerged coastal lands dated back more...