Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...victories may set the French back months or years in their not-too-energetic efforts to clean out Ho's rebellion. If Ho could follow up his success and seize the rich Red River delta, the whole French position in Indo-China would be imperiled...
...Korean soldiers poured fire onto the advancing cavalrymen. Red mines blew the treads off U.S. tanks and convoys were held up under fire for hours at a time. Air and artillery support could not take all the burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough work, rougher than we expected...
...Assembly would set up a Peace Observation Commission to report on danger of aggression. The Commission would need the consent of the threatened nation before sending in its representatives...
Dosed with penicillin and fighting a cold, Marlene (the "World's Most Glamorous Grandma") Dietrich arrived in London 24 hours behind schedule to play a middle-aged film star in the film No Highway. She still had time to call a press conference and set reporters straight on a matter of figures. Said...
Halfback Bagnell completed 20 out of 29 passes for 276 yds. Fourteen of the completions came in a row, to break an old record (ten in a row) set by Cornell's Lynn Dorset in 1947. In 18 carries he ripped through Dartmouth for 214 yds. Total Bagnell yardage: 490 (out of Penn's 590 for the day), to break the alltime individual yardage record (458 yds.) set by Indiana University's All-America Bob Hoernschemeyer against Nebraska in 1943. Penn...