Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reconnaissance indicated he could go forward 30 miles, but he was not going to do so until his flanks were secure. On the east coast, the R.O.K. Capitol Division, operating with horse cavalry, scored a long advance north of Kilchu, but finally ran into heavy resistance and was driven back five miles...
...beauty but a blemish to be hidden Behind judicious rags, driven and scorched...
...reinforcements piecemeal into North Korea, the campaign would be even longer. If they sent large forces, a full-scale war between China and the U.N. army might result. If the estimated 300,000 Chinese troops now in Manchuria crossed the Yalu into Korea, outnumbered U.N. forces might well be driven back below the 38th parallel...
...Buzz Saw. Whether Chinese or Korean, the enemy had succeeded in breaking up a triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...
Like many another hardheaded businessman, Abell H. Bernstein was hard driven by his own restless energy. The stocky president of Bernstein Bros. Pipe & Machinery Co. of Pueblo, Colo, thought nothing of working 18 or 20 hours a day, seemed never to tire. But then he began to suffer from dizzy spells and shortness of breath. Specialists told him that he had coronary artery disease, advised him to quit work and take things easy...