Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Time & again he failed to take advantage of situations where the U.S. forces were exposed to serious damage and possible breakthrough. For example, while his Changnyong bridgehead was being cut to shreds (see Battle of Korea), the North Koreans in a smaller bridgehead to the north did nothing to help...
...heroic and unflinching South Korean stretcher bearers continued to bring the U.S. wounded out of the valley. Roman Catholic Chaplain Otto Sporrer, a Navy* lieutenant commander, stood exposed to sniper fire and two Red 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...
...newsmen at his headquarters in southern Japan. He was under no illusions as to the probable effectiveness-or the economy-of a tactical strike by strategic bombers against an area which might or might not be occupied by enemy troops. "It's just the chance that it might help," he told newsmen. "It's going to be beyond the scope of our book, but we're trying...
Foreign Minister Ana Pauker still runs the show (with the vigilant help of the Russian embassy), still enjoys the Kremlin's confidence, despite rumors to the contrary. The Rumanian army has been thoroughly purged. The Russians have three, possibly four, divisions in Rumania. If they wanted to take the country over, they could do it by phone...
...This explained some types of rain. Certain clouds rise high enough to be cooled to that temperature. Ice motes form, find their way into warmer parts of the cloud, where they grow into snowflakes and fall as snow or rain. "Why not help things along with some dry ice?" asked Langmuir & Schaefer...