Word: half-dozen
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During the last few weeks various correspondents and military spokesmen have tabbed a half-dozen or so North Korean drives ... as the Reds' "last gasp," "final major push" ... It doesn't add up. The Reds have a lot of planes. They haven't used them . . . Why have they held...
...shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...
...fourth night was the worst. The Reds sent nine tanks and a half-dozen assault guns at the company's front; they started coming shortly after dark and kept right on trying until...
...like the little girl with mid-forehead curl. No U.S. yellow journal is worse than Britain's biggest & worst, News of the World. But few U.S. newspapers can match the literary quality and accuracy of Britain's best (e.g., the London Times, London Telegraph). And in a half-dozen opinionated weeklies, the British press sets a standard, intellectual and literary, that is unmatched elsewhere...
...Green, state secretary of the Communist Party, accidentally pelting the neighbors as well. Next day, Green's landlord asked him to move. ¶ In suburban Los Angeles, a World War II veteran named Frank Zaffina, 32, rounded up a posse for a "crusade against Communism," pounced on a half-dozen astonished workmen as they came out of the gates of the Chrysler assembly plant. After three had been badly mauled, Zaffina was surprised to learn that among his victims were included a fellow Navy veteran and another with a South Pacific Air Force record. "I guess...