Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...handing them grenades, 'This is the best I can do for you.' One group of G.I.s, before running to safety through crossfire, propped up a wounded buddy in the middle of the road, where he could raise his hands to surrender. As they tore across a paddy field, they turned back to have a last look at their friend. It was just in time to see him cut in half by Red Tommy guns, his feeble, lifeless hands still waving in the crisp summer...
Wanted: Six Divisions. On a day when Pentagon spokesmen in Washington described the Korean situation as "not serious," the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, who was in the field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order...
Major General William F. Dean, 51, field commander of U.S. ground forces in Korea, went back last week to defend the land which, as U.S. military governor, he had ruled from October 1947 to January 1948. Burly, blond Bill Dean, commissioned in the Regular Army in 1923 after Reserve training while at the University of California, became a crack tactician in World War II, commanded the 44th Infantry Division in its sweep through Germany and Austria...
Agriculture is now investigating reports that ragweed, the terror of hayfever victims, is also developing a taste for 2,4-D. "Chemical weed control," a spokesman concluded wearily, "is another field in which agricultural science must always look for something...
This week, over Manhattan's station WNBC (Tues. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), the nation's lowest-paid disc jockey entered the overcrowded field. White-maned, 63-year-old Leopold Stokowski, for 24 years conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began a four-week show. Stokowski will play his own recordings of Bach music, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, and will accept a $1 bill in payment...