Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first marine set foot ashore, the heaviest responsibility lay on Rear Admiral James H. ("Jimmy") Doyle, amphibious attack commander, and on Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the Seventh Fleet, who softened up the shore defenses and got the troops to the beaches. After all troops were ashore, the ground fighting would be taken over by General Almond as commander of MacArthur's X Corps. Between times, the heaviest responsibility for the success or failure of Operation Chromite lay with General Smith's marines...
While Mao was laying these harsh strictures on the wobblers among his followers, "liberals" in the U.S. were busily tearing down Mao's main enemy, Chiang Kaishek, on the ground that Chiang was anti-liberal and contemptuous of the "ordinary folk" of China...
...also criticized liberals on the ground that they are too tolerant. They do not, said he, denounce or report the "obvious misdeeds of acquaintances, relatives, schoolmates, intimate friends, loved ones . . ." Furthermore, the liberal Communist is to be condemned for "forgetting he is a Communist Party member and lowering himself to the level of the ordinary folk...
...copy to take home. From now on, said the letter, atomic bombing drills would be a regular part of the 1950-51 school program. The drills had been thoroughly worked out, would be repeated so often "that immediate response will become a habit" (e.g., "drop immediately to the ground or floor, face down . . ."). Of course, added Superintendent Stoddard, "we sincerely hope that all of our plans and procedures . . . will never have to be put into actual...
Correspondent Higgins travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...