Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Viet Nam, as the Indo-Chinese call their country, is shaped like the load which millions of her barefooted peasants carry over their shoulders: two bulging baskets at either end of a thin pole. One bulge is northern Viet Nam (Tonkin), and the other southern Viet Nam (Cochin China). In the slender central region (An-nam), the mountains ripple almost down to the coast. Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces terrorize the coastal plains. In the south, terrorists make life unpleasant in the crowded Saigon region, and the Communist Vietminh haunts the marshes between the numberless arms...
...clubby congressional custom, this meant the advice and consent of the Senator whose home state is involved. Typical was the case of M. Neil Andrews, nominated for a judgeship in Georgia's Northern District. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell complained that he had submitted a nominee of his own and been ignored. "Personally obnoxious and objectionable to me," said Russell, using a ritualistic phrase. The corroborating chorus of noes was deafening...
...influence and the power to call off the invading Northern Korean army? The Soviet Union...
...guided it to a perfect landing between the double white lines on the 10,000-foot runway. Then the Trader swung over the great circle route to Tokyo's Haneda airport. Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and six ships lent by the Royal Canadian Air Force later followed this northern route to Japan. Pan American, whose ten places make up the biggest private-line fleet in the service, led the way across the mid-Pacific via Hawaii. Eight other U.S. lines soon followed, plus one of Belgium's Sabena airliners lent as a contribution...
...Communists surely knew it. They were massing on the southern and western fronts for two major drives: one straight at Pusan, the other to take Taegu, the communications hub of the northern half of the U.N. defense line. The Reds had already established several small bridgeheads east of the Naktong River near Taegu, and the city itself was under enemy artillery fire...