Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Lee Ho, Vice Chief of South Korea's Martial Law Headquarters, insisted that no one had yet been executed without due process of law. Civilians sentenced to death are supposed to be hanged, added Ho, "but we have found shooting by firing squad more convenient...
...Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...
...they been members of any other army the marines and soldiers would have made the detour and perhaps been annihilated in the process. As it was, even before the crucial crossing was reached, eight spans of a 16-ton bridge had been parachuted down out of the sky to the U.S. troops seemingly isolated in the midst of the enemy. Eight C-119s of Major General William H. Tunner's Combat Cargo Command, each hauling a single span, had carried out the world's first airdrop of a bridge. The retreating column was free to move ahead, vehicles...
...this pessimistic judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...
...head of the Publicity Office, Joan Projansky '49 is in charge of telling editors who their correspondents will be. She explains the process this way; "When the last girl got married, I called up the Globe and said that Mary Stokes would be their new correspondent. Mr. Merrill (the Globe's city editor) was a little angry, but in a few days he called back and said she was okay...