Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...weeks outgunned and outnumbered U.S. and South Korean troops had fought a heroic but heartbreaking delaying action against the Communists-trading space for time, in the phrase of the military experts. After the landing of reinforcements, including the 1st U.S. Marines, the U.S. was now in a position to make a solid stand around the vital supply port of Pusan. If the Communists did not manage to strike a decisive blow this week, their chances of driving the U.S. into the sea would be virtually gone...
...that could pass for sleep in four days. One stubby G.I. looked sadly at an officer and said: "Major, if they'd just put me up on top of that hill and in a foxhole, I'd fire that gun. But my legs just can't make...
...Shooting Star jets streaked over from the Philippines. Also from the Philippines came Major General Howard M. Turner, commander of the U.S. Thirteenth Air Force, and from Tokyo came Brigadier General Alonzo P. Fox, Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Far East Command; they would make a more detailed survey, expedite U.S. aid, set up a liaison staff. Coordination would probably include a Nationalist armed forces training program under U.S. officers...
...Council was not intimidated. Four times it voted, and four times Malik was defeated. The Council approved the U.S.-sponsored agenda which would make North Korean aggression this week's first order of business...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wants India to keep "freedom of action"; this is a diplomatic way of saying that he cannot make up his mind where he really stands. He supports U.N. military action against the Red invasion of South Korea; at the same time, he is trying to sell the West a plan for a "peaceful settlement" of the Korean war which calls for appeasing Russia by admitting Red China into the U.N. (TIME, July 31). Last week, Nehru went before the Indian Parliament to ask approval for his Korea policy (which...