Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...battle in his undershirt. But when Bradley got there, the Reds were in the town of Pohang, a burning ruin. Southeast of the town, ground crews, clerks and cooks were still defending the airstrip against the enemy. This week the Air Force evacuated its planes. The loss of the field-perhaps only temporary-was a serious blow to U.S. airpower in Korea...
...they stopped to eat their breakfast rations. Almost instantly they were under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire. An MP sergeant driving a jeep along the road was hit in the back; his vehicle careened off the road into a bank. Davis and Wright dashed across a green paddy field. When they were safely out of range of the enemy's fire, they looked up at the crag they had just left; it was now occupied by a Communist machine-gun crew...
...action of Communist China. The Peking regime has granted comradely recognition to the North Korean regime. Its propaganda cheers on the North Korean army. Last week Nationalist Chinese intelligence reported that Red China's Boss Mao Tse-tung, Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and No. 1 Field General Lin Piao were conferring in Mukden with Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
That took in a lot of territory, and other U.S. tennis scouts might not be ready to go so far, just yet. Nonetheless, as Ham Richardson raced through the National Junior field at Kalamazoo, Mich., there was plenty to watch. Slim (155 Ibs.), tall (5 ft. 11½ in.), and still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with...
...blasted from a Long Island cradle, set course for Europa, waited till we were about six hours away from Earth's gravitational field, then cut over to Biggs's velocity intensifier, using which we could look forward to setting foot on Europa within two days at the most...