Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...after the Japanese had capitulated. Said TIME : "Forces directly under MacArthur's command must take the surrender of Japan's home armies, occupy the four 'home islands,' and perhaps Korea. Upon these forces (which would include token groups from other Allies) would fall the burden of implementing plans to secure the peace of the world, and of Asia in particular...
...Fluid" was getting to be one of the most hateful words of the Korean war. Whenever the thin U.S. forces found their lines breached and themselves forced to fall back, a headquarters spokesman, either in the battle zone or in Tokyo, was almost sure to tell correspondents that the situation was "fluid...
...castoff clothes, armed with pocket pistols and .25s in shoulder holsters. They were cabinet members of the Republic of Korea on their way to join President Syngman Rhee in his hideout "White House" somewhere in Korea's far south. Taejon, South Korea's emergency capital since the fall of Seoul on June 28, was no longer a safe location for the cabinet, military men had decided...
...expedition against Pancho Villa for the old Denver Morning World. Later, Richards worked for newspapers in Honolulu, Tokyo and Shanghai, and covered the Sino-Japanese war. A onetime assistant city editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, Richards was its Washington correspondent when he took leave last fall to go to Korea as a special adviser on international affairs to President Syngman Rhee. He was planning to come home as war broke...
...Bridges), a decadent Frenchman (Claude Rains), a philosophical Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a dutiful Swiss (Oscar Homolka). Before the peak comes into sight, they revert pretty much to national typecasting, and the plot maneuvers them to illustrate some simple homilies (e.g., Love conquers all; United we stand, divided we fall...