Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...first phase was to fight a delaying action toward Pusan and establish a perimeter around this excellent port with both flanks resting on the sea. U.S. & U.N. forces, with control of the air and sea, ought to be able to hold such a protected beachhead indefinitely. The second phase was to build up U.S. strength inside the perimeter. The third phase, as outlined by the editors, was the break out from the Pusan perimeter supported by Allied amphibious attacks behind the North Korean lines...
...York Yankees won their seventeenth American League pennant--and their second straight for Manager Casey Stengel--yesterday in the lobby of the Hotel Kenmore. While the Yanks were enjoying an off day in Boston, the Cleveland Indians eliminated the Detroit Tigers from the pennant race with a 12 to 2 victory at Briggs Field...
Some years ago an instructor in English, hearing that the University had once again appropriated huge funds toward scientific studies, grumbled, "Soon Harvard will be the second best technical school in Cambridge...
...while the University was expanding its scientific departments, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was moving in the opposite direction am becoming the second best center of humanistic scholarship in Cambridge...
Based on a Robert Heinlein novel and filmed in technicolor, "Destination Moon" picks on a theme s unique that the move, almost by definition is highly incredible. This is to be expected, since heading for the moon at a clip of seven miles a second is a sensation no man has yet experienced. But the producers of the picture sometimes carry things to absurd extremes. For instance, when the rocket lights on the moon, the participants must first of all take part in a walky-talky interview via New York, for they are now celebrities...