Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...court martial for "misbehavior before the enemy" was swift and crushing. After a three-day trial at a command post 200 yards behind the front lines, Leon Gilbert became the first U.S. soldier in Korea sentenced to die for panicking under fire...
...Fire Hose. Early last week there was still hope-among Tokyo optimists, at least - that Douglas MacArthur's abortive "end-the-war" offensive had only "temporarily" been halted, that a major enemy breakthrough could be prevented. The ist Cavalry Division, aided by British and Turks, was rushed to plug the enormous gap in the Tokchon sector where the R.O.K. II Corps had been shattered. It was like trying to plug a fire hose with a wad of chewing gum. The cavalrymen were beaten back 30 miles to Sinchang, then lost the town and fell back still farther...
...said, has gulled the 52 nations sharing in the police action in Korea. .Shrilled Wu to the 52, in a patent move to splinter the already divided U.N. majority: "Do not be taken in by the U.S., do not pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the U.S.-because . . . you must bear the consequences of your actions...
With time & money to do only three fresh works for his fast-developing young company this season (he did five last year, plus one for Britain's Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet), Balanchine made one of them a sure-fire novelty. He decided to introduce his fans to the music of one of his favorite composers, Glinka ("the Verdi of Russia," says Balanchine), and one of his favorite dances, the fiery mazurka. Who could set its style better than Balanchine himself...
...Miller and his wife, Registered Nurse Blanche Miller, describe some of their experiences in the 19303 around Morgantown, Ky. (pop. 859): "Long trips over poor or nonexistent roads, often time after time when the labor was long; the long hours spent in a lamplit home, with a flickering log fire that barely warmed our shins and left our backs freezing . . . Often we had been forced to change the mother's gown and bed and to improvise diapers, bands and clothing for the baby who had already been greased . . . We had even cooked and served meals...