Word: staging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...quality of his army. The sinewy, spring-legged little men of North Korea had good equipment and they knew how to use it. They handled their hard-hitting, Russian-made tanks well; they were smart, tireless infantrymen and they were close to wonderful with mortars and artillery. At one stage of the battle a U.S. soldier observed bitterly that they could drop a mortar shell "in your hip pocket...
These two U.S. battalions were committed piecemeal at Osan, to delay the enemy's approach to the Kum River line and Taejon. The Americans, at this stage, had no tanks and their light bazookas and antitank weapons were no match for the Red armor. They fell back. But their gallant action had served, at least, as a temporary roadblock, and it forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun...
Price had a field day against Hobert, completing six out of seven passes for 142 yards including one for a touchdown, and Price the rare compliment of rating him a better passer than Gene Rossides was during the same stage in the latter's brilliant career...
Since its start, the course has been a particular vehicle for Davison, even to today when the examinations are based almost entirely on detailed section material. At ten each Tuesday and Thursday morning he walks onto Paine Hall's stage. He is a short, amiable man who smiles behind his glasses. Soon, however, the spectacles are off, for he continually gestures with them, most especially when the music pleases him. And somehow, with his words--spoken softly in a nearly English accent--and gestures, he gets across his love, appreciation, almost veneration of good music. One of his generation...
There is but one set, the stage of the theatre. The curtain is up before the play opens and one assumes that the scene is actually Brattle Hall. Since there is no scenery, the stage cannot be criticized; what was played on it was good...