Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With shocking suddenness the U.N. victory march in Korea was stopped, and hurled back. Driven from advanced positions near the Manchurian border (see below), U.N. troops settled grimly to holding a defense line which in some places was only 45 miles north of Pyongyang. Generals who two weeks before had promised to have their forces on the Yalu River in a matter of days now discussed a "winter war." Said one U.S. officer grimly: "I think we can hold them...
...went wrong: Impellitteri filed for mayor. Followed by a handful of Tammany district leaders who hoped to run the Tiger as they pleased if he won, Impy wrote out his own bill of divorcement from the Democratic machine, gave himself a quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
...east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just under 30 jet-driven minutes from Siberian fighter outposts, last week found herself 500 miles out in front of the new U.S. defensive position...
...were determined to show his face to every man, woman & child in the state. Occasionally, he went in a Beechcraft plane, piloted by his second cousin, David Ingalls, the Navy's only flying ace in World War I. More often Mr. Republican went by Ingalls' Chrysler, driven at a hair-raising rate by Airman Ingalls in a Tyrolean...
Dangling from multi-colored parachutes, 4,100 men and their jeeps, trucks and artillery dropped onto flat, dry rice fields. Within an hour the drops had been completed and Red troops in the drop area driven off. Within another hour the paratroopers had sealed off the two highways and rail lines along which the routed North Koreans had hoped to escape from Pyongyang. Said MacArthur: "It looked perfect to me. It looks like it closed the trap...