Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first four days-6,000 Reds captured, up to 4,000 killed, the invasion assault blocked. In Hoihow, firecrackers popped jubilantly. Next day the celebration fizzled. The Communists had won again. On the sixth day after making their beachhead, the men of Lin Piao's Communist Fourth Field Army marched triumphantly into Hoihow. With what remained of his 160,000 defenders, Hsueh Yueh fell back hopelessly to Hainan's south coast...
Broadcasting from Los Angeles, Groucho has a naturally fertile field for zany contestants. But, not content to take just what turns up in studio audiences, his scouts are out beating the bushes for people with strange jobs and enough gabbiness to heighten Marx's verbal asides. He is often topped, as he was when he asked an elderly woman what people were wearing when she was a baby. Her answer: "Diapers." And he was almost speechless for once when a burlesque-show employee identified a stripteaser as "an anatomy award winner...
Your Host's demonstration was short and to the point. He got off first in a field of nine, stayed in front all the way, won by 6½ lengths. His time for the seven-furlong dash: 1:22.4, a new track record. In fourth place (after C. V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble and Calumet's Theory), and eleven lengths behind the winner: Oil Capitol...
...that case he runs. In Boston last week three wiry young Koreans were in a hurry for 26 miles, 385 yds. By running the distance in a shade over 2½ hours, they finished 1-2-3 in the 53rd Boston marathon. In so doing, they outclassed an international field of 131, including last year's winner, Karl Gösta Leandersson of Sweden...
Crimson ruggers waded through mud and rain to score their biggest upset of the season as they defeated Princeton, 6 to 3, Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field. The second Harvard fifteen was defeated in the preliminary game...