Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other bolder plan called for holding the widest possible perimeter, including Taegu and Pohang. This would mean stringing out in a thin line and shuttling units back & forth to block enemy thrusts; but for political, morale and strategic reasons it seemed to the top command important to hold Taegu, the provisional capital of the South Korean government and an important base for U.S. tactical aircraft. The hold-Taegu strategy, obviously ordered by General Douglas MacArthur and General Walton Walker, prevailed. By last week there were heartening signs that that strategy was correct...
...machine guns still chattering from the valley flanks and did what he could to help the medics. The padre spoke kind words to the stretcher bearers; when the men on the stretchers could hear him, he spoke to them too. All the while, he walked back & forth from the top of the trail to the aid station near Craig's command post. The padre was a brave man, but so was everyone who went into the valley before No Name Ridge that...
...explosion. Five miles away, the light glares as brightly as 100 suns; up to half a mile the heat waves sear everything directly in their path. Then, too, comes the flood of gamma rays (nuclear X rays). Trapped at first within the fire ball, these deadly rays burst forth a fraction of a second after the bomb explodes...
...Battle. From the combat-loaded holds of their ships, the marines brought forth great shiny bulldozers, wreckers and heavy road equipment the like of which Korea had never seen before. The marines had their own flamethrowers, amphibious tractors, Pershing tanks whose 90-mm. guns were a match for the Reds' Russian-built T-34s. The 1st Division's advance team also had its own air wing-a force of about 200 Corsairs (see The Air War), commanded by veteran Brigadier General Thomas Cushman...
Such specialized patter will probably give no trouble at all to admirers of Comic-Strip Hero Buck Rogers and his legion of spaceship-flying, planet-exploring imitators. But to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while...