Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With the largest primary vote ever given a candidate for Oklahoma's governorship, Johnston Murray, son of tobacco-chewing, brimstone-spitting old ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...
...stadium, Doyle, Flaig and 49,000 others sat watching as the Dodgers, at 20 minutes after noon, walked onto the bright green grass of the field...
...bloody, muddy Korea, Douglas MacArthur and his field commander, Major General William F. Dean, had to hold a line somewhere between the battle zone and the southern supply port of Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them...
...isolated unit of less than one battalion supported by one battery of field artillery, which was at Osan yesterday, was attacked by the best Red division, supported by 40 tanks, which were extremely skillfully maneuvered. The ratio of troops engaged was more than eight to one against the American forces. For more than six hours the American forces held off the invaders until their ammunition was exhausted, and then withdrew . . . The American forces were being enveloped on both flanks. {They} were confronted with a resourceful Red commander who skillfully applied frontal pressure with envelopment...
This was the dismal outcome of the first combat for U.S. ground forces since World War II. It was too bad that this realistic appraisal of a really formidable enemy came after the fight and not before. One U.S. officer in the field admitted that he had been contemptuous of the North Koreans. He lost his contempt...