Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...less than the papers. "It was so sketchy that you can't dignify it by calling it a report," snorted a White House intimate. "The President knows that MacArthur flew down to Formosa, and that MacArthur and Chiang discussed the defense of Formosa and Chiang's re-offer of three Chinese Nationalist divisions-and that's all he knows...
...visit to Formosa "a short reconnaissance of the potential of its defense against possible attack." Acting under Washington's order to guard the island against Communist invasion, he promised "effective coordination between American forces under my command and those of the Chinese government." As for Chiang's offer to send Nationalist troops to Korea, MacArthur replied that they were more needed in Formosa's defense...
...twisted spine. "If the operation is successful," said Poolad's doctor, "he may again be the strongest man in the world." Poolad himself was confident. While awaiting the knife, he lay across three hospital beds placed side by side, flirting with a petite nurse and considering an offer from a U.S. circus...
...malaria, dysentery and flies. This month the Army brought out a new drug, a large white pill which seems to be both a preventive and cure for malaria, and has to be taken only once a week. Halazone tablets [to purify water], which were used in the last war, offer protection against one source of dysentery. DDT is effective against the flies, but so far it has been in critical supply in Korea, and most soldiers have scratched themselves into infections from the maddening bites...
...impasse, New Yorkers, thirsting for war news, lapped up Hearst's Journal-American, and the tabloid Post. Wall Streeters were also sending out for the Newark (N.J.) News, the only nearby afternoon paper that prints the complete stock market tables. All that the W-T & S could offer were daily sports broadcasts with this hopeful commercial: "Brought to you by the New York World-Telegram and Sun-a newspaper worth waiting...