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Even if the thin line of U.S. youngsters on the south bank of the Kum had miraculously prevented a single Communist from crossing, they would have had to pull out of the salient around Taejon anyway. The Communist drive on their right flank (see below) threatened to cut the rail line, perhaps encircle and destroy the forces on the U.S.'s first line of defense. After delaying the enemy as much as they could, their main business was to get out alive and intact...
...Fluid" was getting to be one of the most hateful words of the Korean war. Whenever the thin U.S. forces found their lines breached and themselves forced to fall back, a headquarters spokesman, either in the battle zone or in Tokyo, was almost sure to tell correspondents that the situation was "fluid...
...shipyards have not completed a single ocean-going passenger or cargo-passenger vessel in the last 23 months. As a result, the U.S. merchant fleet is slipping into middle age (the average ship is eight years old), and the once-mighty U.S. shipbuilding industry is growing skeleton-thin on hardtack. With just 19 ocean-going ships under construction last week, the U.S. has dropped to ninth place among the nations of the world in tonnage of new ships on order; even conquered Japan has more new ships abuilding...
Lucille Shadrick, a thin and bony woman, left the table, sobbing. Theodore Shadrick stared stonily, pondering the news that the fourth oldest of his six sons and four daughters was gone. "He was the best there was," said Theodore finally. "Never caused us a mite of worry...
...British Open Championship in Scotland last week, Defending Champion Locke made careful preparations. A fortnight ahead of time, he was out practicing on the 72-year-old course at Troon, making mental notes of every danger along the snake-thin fairways, the postage-stamp greens...