Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Easy Company's orders were to sit tight near the British consulate until morning. A drizzling rain had begun to fall. We wrapped ourselves in ponchos and tried to get some sleep but it was hard to sleep. The sky was alight with the red glare from half a dozen fires in the harbor area. Naval guns thundered intermittently. Now & then we heard bursts of small-arms fire and the flat, deadly sound of mortars...
...reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays at the front most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week, after...
...nest egg, the chances were good that Aunt Anita would cheerfully ante up again. But last week Editor Thackrey made a sad announcement: The Compass has just about run out of cash and Aunt Anita was not available. Wrote Thackrey: "Since Mrs. Elaine's serious illness last fall . . . it has not been possible to discuss further financing with her, and it does not seem likely that it will be possible to do so in the near future, if at all again...
...cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...
Admission to the reserve programs is ordinarily open only to freshmen, but this fall the R.O.T.C. will admit to its advanced course veterans of 12 months service who are in the senior class...