Word: combat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat the rebels who are chasing him, Thakin Nu has an armed force of some 12,000 men, three Spitfires and two pilots (whom the rebels tried to assassinate last week). Fortunately for the outnumbered government forces, personal animosities and the wide gap in principles separating the rebel factions have so far prevented any lasting military mergers among them. Each group is forming its own island of resistance, from which it strikes in sporadic attacks...
Bold Effort. For eight days the Gimo had pondered, on the cool heights of Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new dollar, called the gold yuan, backed by $200 million worth of gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion...
...though supported chiefly by federal funds), guard units have often suffered from spotty training; their top officers have often been kept on the job for political reasons. Even after the guard was called to federal service in 1940, it took nearly two years to get some units ready for combat. Next time, warned the Gray board, there might be no such breathing spell...
...precisely when things seemed worst, people began to pull themselves together. Tarrou organized a group of volunteers to combat the plague. Rambert, on the eve of his escape, chose to remain and fight; he had learned that in such times "it may be shameful to be happy by oneself." Grand abandoned his perfect sentence and Father Paneloux his religious fatalism. It was not a question of heroism; people hardly had enough freedom of choice to be heroic. They simply decided to do what they could, even if their resistance was absurd. And perhaps, suggests Camus, to continue upholding...
...Plague, written in a muted, undramatic style, quite in the way a sensitive but unliterary doctor might set down his recollections. When first published in Paris in 1947, it created a sensation; it was immediately understood as a parable of the French underground (Camus was editor of Combat, a leading French underground paper...