Word: combat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chiang flew on to Sian, summoned an emergency conference of his top military men. The entire Central China front hung in delicate balance. Any additional divisions the Gimo threw in to tip the scales would fatally weaken the sector from which they were withdrawn. His most dependable combat troops, the tough, hard-fighting veterans of General Fu Tso-yi, were already over-extended and outnumbered in the vital Peiping corridor...
...only a minuscule air force in occupied Europe: 75 P-51 fighters and ten B-29 Superfortresses, all of World War II vintage. In all of Europe, the U.S., Great Britain and France together could put no more than 300 combat aircraft in the air. "Suspicion estimates" place the Russian air force along the Western border at better than 4,000 planes...
...humor and its ability to produce better and more intelligent citizens than the fanatics who were trained under other systems. For all his great public reputation, he was the embodiment of the unknown quantity in world politics, the something that exists in addition to all the figures on aircraft, combat divisions, tanks, factories and naval vessels...
...gruff and toothless old lion of U.S.politics growled softly with rheumatism and prepared once more for combat. The Socialist Party held its 1948 presidential convention in Reading...
...think of these people," said General Ike Eisenhower last week, "as just some sort of unfortunates . . . They are not-they are one of you. I saw a major general, one of the finest athletes of his time, definitely break-break because he could no longer sustain the agonies of combat. He could not talk to me without shaking, and he had to go home. This cannot be dismissed as not touching you personally...