Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...weeks the North Koreans around the Pusan perimeter had maintained heavy pressure on Lieut. General Walton Walker's line. In spite of intensive and thorough bombing and strafing of supply lines from the air, the Reds were still getting enough to the southern front to hold the initiative. The rate of U.S. buildup inside the Pusan perimeter was so slow that, short of a complete North Korean collapse, Walker had little prospect of launching a decisive offensive...
...beach above Pohang. Then South Korean marines struck at Kunsan on the peninsula's west coast. But that, too, was a feint. The enemy did not suspect that the place would be Inchon, the port of Seoul, 150 miles northwest of Taegu. But Inchon it was, in spite of a formidable high tide* and a treacherous, silt-filled channel...
Conclusion. The U.S. advantage in preponderance of bombs is less important than the strategic framework within which the bombs might be used. In spite of its lessening atomic lead, the U.S. would have a better chance of winning a war in 1953 than in 1950, provided Western Europe were vigorously defended by 60 good European and U.S. divisions. Under these circumstances the free world could reasonably hope that the Kremlin would suspend its present aggressive drive. Only under such circumstances would talk of the "peaceful coexistence" of the free world and the U.S.S.R. begin to make sense...
...some white-glove parties, the Brazilian admiral, who commanded the 1st (Rio) naval district during the latter part of World War II, embarked on a series of trips to ordnance plants, naval schools and submarine bases. "I learn," explained the admiral after visiting the New York Naval Shipyard. "In spite of my grey hair I am always learning...
...mind than to engage upon war with the British Empire or the United States." Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender, was "a man of confirmed liberal views, consistently opposed to any policy of aggression and aggrandisement." To explain his own action in remaining in the government in spite of his anti-war bias, Author Kase declares that he "was told that under the circumstances my resignation could not be accepted...