Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until normal supply lines could be set up wherever they might...
...combat-ready ground troops at U.S. disposal, except for thin minimum needs for garrison duty, were committed, or soon would be, in Korea. No man could soundly predict victory in Korea by Thanksgiving or for that matter by the next Thanksgiving unless he ignored the possibility that Moscow might set up a brushfire somewhere else, or intensify the force in Korea, e.g., by getting China's Communist troops into the battle...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India habitually takes a lofty moral tone towards the West. In July, he set out, unbidden, to mediate the Korean war, in effect proposed that the U.S. bribe Moscow into calling off the North Koreans by admitting Red China into U.N. (TIME, July 24). When the U.S. refused, Nehru was indignant. Last week, when U.N. Mediator Sir Owen Dixon suggested that India make a compromise with Pakistan to end a three-year-old dispute over possession of the princely state of Kashmir...
...Hungarian immigrants who moved to Steelville when he was seven, John Zahorsky worked as a pharmacist, file clerk and ladies' wear salesman to pay for his way through Missouri Medical College (since absorbed by Washington University). Within ten years he had set some doctors sniffing with his idea that children's colds were more often caused by contagion than by exposure to bad weather. Soon he was protesting against taking newborn babies from their mothers and massing them in an aseptic nursery...
...give & take-mostly take-Schroeder made an antic gesture. Standing near the net between points, he bounced a ball against his head. The ball bounded over. Ted seemed to be saying: "Well, I can't get the ball over any other way.' McGregor won the first set, 13-11, then romped through two more, 6-3, 6-4, for the match. Since Sedgman had walloped an unsteady Tom Brown in an earlier match, the Australians, needing three-of-five to win, could just about crate up the old cup for shipment home. But the Aussies' Captain Hopman...