Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...storm No Name Ridge. For 5 minutes, the height was pounded by U.S. artillery. Then for a quarter of an hour Marine Corsair fighter planes raked it with bombs, rockets and machine guns. After this there was another 10-minute artillery barrage; then the Corsairs came back over for final strafing runs...
...marine line wavered and paused; it withdrew a bit and waited. Then with a final thrust, some ten marines reached the northern crest. They never came back...
Savagery by Proxy. To attempt to win it so, as we are now doing in Korea, is not only to court final failure but also to force upon our men in the field acts and attitudes of the utmost savagery. This means not the usual, inevitable savagery of combat in the field, but savagery in detail-the blotting out of villages where the enemy may be hiding; the shooting and shelling of refugees who may include North Koreans in the anonymous white clothing of the Korean countryside, or who may be screening an enemy march upon our positions...
...Huntington, W. Va., Nashville, Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C., Jacksonville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Moving westward, the net will pick up Indianapolis, Rock Island, Ill., Davenport and Ames, Iowa, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City. California's TV stations can join the national net late in 1951, when the final link between Omaha and San Francisco is completed...
...ninth inning the strain began to tell. Bickford walked two Dodgers. "I was really nervous," he admitted later. Then, with two men on base and one out, Dodger Outfielder Duke Snider banged into a double play, ending the game and giving Bickford his no-hitter.* Final score: Boston 7, Brooklyn...