Word: packs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
Meanwhile, Power is cashing in on the recruiting promises. He has learned a trade. He is running a series of radio stations for MacArthur and smoking cigarettes from a pack which says "I shall return . . . Doug MacArthur." His commander will not let him fight, even though killing a Jap gave him "his first real satisfaction" since his MTB burned...
...dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn Varden...
Leading the U.N. pack was the R.O.K. 6th Division, which since Sept. 23 had marched nearly 700 miles. Said a U.S. captain attached to the division as a military adviser: "These are tough guys . . . They march at night with hardly any clothes, just a rag around their feet inside their shoes, and it just about freezes me." Just before dusk one evening the "tough guys" of the 6th Division's 7th Regiment pushed through the border town of Chosan, 130 miles north of Pyongyang, and drove to the south bank of the Yalu...
...observers found the court proceedings viciously slaphappy. Brigadier Lazum Tang testified that Missionary Seagrave refused to shake hands with him when government troops reoccupied Namhkam. Three Burmese nurses testified that Seagrave once referred to the government army as "a pack of dogs...