Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heartbreak Ridge, the allies could look down over the wide Mundung Valley, in the direction of the so-called Iron Triangle from which the Communists have mounted many attacks. Realizing that the allies were now in position to streak down the valley toward Pyonggang, the Communists sent their fiercest counterattacks into this sector, but at week's end they had not dislodged the U.N. soldiers...
Bunkers & Blasts. Heartbreak Ridge has been the fiercest Korean battle in four months, worse than Bloody Ridge, worse than the Punchbowl. The North Koreans were holed up in stout, deep bunkers that resisted direct artillery and mortar hits. When they lost some of these in hand-to-hand fights, they threw in a series of heavy counterattacks, using five regiments one after another. Twice Americans got to the top, only to be blasted off by enemy fire. This week neither side held it, although at some points on the slopes their positions were only yards apart. The dirty, unshaven...
This week U.S. doughfeet reached the south edge of the Hwachon Reservoir against the fiercest resistance of the week. The Reds opened some of the reservoir's floodgates, raising by four feet the level of the Pukhan River and sending debris banging against allied pontoons. The enemy seemed dead set on preventing any further approach to the iron triangle...
Deep in the Mato Grosso jungles, beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths), live 15,000 Chavante Indians, members of the fiercest Indian tribe in all Brazil. For decades Brazil's Indian Protective Service agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...
...answers to the other questions, the TV fan has to wrestle with the six-syllable words "compatibility" and "convertibility." Around these words swirled the fiercest arguments of the FCC hearings...