Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utter Defeat." The Red line was laid down this week by the loudest organ of Peking propaganda, the People's Daily: "Heavy blows dealt by the Korean people's army and Chinese volunteers have put the enemy in such dilemma that an armistice now becomes possible." The Red version of what happened in Korea is simple: The South Koreans started the war a year ago with an attack on North Korea. The North Koreans quickly counterattacked, whereupon "American imperialists," coming to the aid of their "Syngman Rhee puppets," drove into North Korea. At that point Chinese "volunteers" entered...
...testimony given by some of the subsequent witnesses did not coincide with my own recollection and record of the events, and with many of their opinions and judgments I am in direct disagreement." MacArthur also had a last dart for the man who fired him: "Insofar as the investigation dealt with my relief from the Far East command, I feel that the full facts have not been elucidated due to orders of the President silencing the pertinent witnesses...
...during which a nearly miraculous logistical effort poured a flood of war materiel and men into Pusan's choking port. When the allied forces were finally ready for the big breakout, some U.N. forces stabbed westward to Kunsan, but the main body drove north toward Seoul. Then MacArthur dealt one of the master strokes of the war: the landing at Inchon (Seoul's port). The routed North Koreans reeled back toward the Manchurian border. MacArthur sent his forces after them in hot pursuit up to the Yalu...
Tiger coach Emerson Dickman shuffted his post-graduation squad and dealt a lineup that looked and played little like the team that built up a 7 and 2 league record and a 17 and 5 overall record in the present season. The Tigers also contributed two errors, both in the fourth inning, to help Harvard score its two runs...
Three associations, representing door-to-door sellers of everything from Fuller Brushes to encyclopedias, joined with Breard to appeal his case, since the law dealt a heavy blow to the house-to-house selling of $1.4 billion in consumer goods each year, including some 10,000,000 magazine subscriptions. They wanted to test the constitutionality of the "Green River" ordinance which over 400 U.S. communities have adopted since Green River, Wyo. passed the first one in 1931 to slam the door on solicitors. Breard's lawyers charged that his arrest violated both freedom of the press and free speech...