Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bank of the Kum River they were threatened with envelopment from the flanks. It was obvious that they would have to pull out of the salient around Taejon and continue to fight a long delaying action. How far would they have to retreat before they were strong enough to make a comeback against the North Koreans...
...generations, the Wadsworths of New York's green Genesee Valley have lived in an ancient brick mansion near the town of Geneseo and farmed the broad acres around it. Ever since the American Revolution, they have also helped to fight the nation's wars and make the nation's laws. One James S. Wadsworth left the Genesee Valley in 1861 to serve as a Union general. His son, and namesake, served in Congress for 20 years. His grandson, the third James Wadsworth, did just what his ancestors would have expected...
There were some brutal facts to make clear. "Defense" was a misnomer. If an atomic bomb ever exploded above a U.S. city, thousands would die despite all the efforts of such men as Clay and his staff. Cities are pretty much defenseless and their populations are naked under the enemy. No one would be safe, yet many could be saved. Thinking of the worst, even while the "worst" itself could not be measured, Clay and his staff prepared to do what they could, basing their plans on a horrendous hypothesis...
Around the periphery of the conflagration, firemen would set up mobile stations, try to supplement the inadequate and ruptured water supply with water pumped from the island's flanking rivers. Policemen would make their way into the devastated area, directing squads of mechanics who would turn off gas mains, burn through tangled girders, tunnel into debris after the entombed. Health department squads would penetrate into the dust-thick hell, monitoring radioactivity. Rescue squads and equipment would be ordered to the scene from undamaged, outlying communities...
...York, father Hu was not disturbed. "We know, of course, that there is no freedom of speech ... in Communist countries . . .," he explained. "But few persons realize that there is no freedom of silence, either. Residents of a Communist state are required to make positive statements of belief and loyalty...