Word: combat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little crowd gathered-mostly students in odds & ends of G.I. clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down...
...realize that Germans were here for six years, that people in the street, the guy who runs the hotdog stand on the corner and all of Norman Corwin's little people are not so little. I don't know how many Czechs were killed, out of combat, by the Germans--about a million. Absolutely every family was affected...
...irresponsible fools in Europe just serving to gum up the works. They appeared in print all over the place and they added nothing but confusion and bad feeling to the situation. And I don't mean criticism by the Moscow New Times, I mean by reasonable, intelligent papers like Combat and Le Monde in Paris...
That necessitous attitude had mothered invention. Partly to combat printers' strikes, a few small, papers (TIME, July 28) had tried out photo-engraved typing in the last several years. But last week was the first time the process had been used on a large scale...
...inflation. And the first results have been enough to give them hope that Italy-if provided with U.S. raw materials-may finally have a program that will cure her sick economy. The final success of the program will depend on the skill with which the De Gasperi government can combat the rule-or-ruin tactics of the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the program's first success last week was measured by the energy, bordering on fury, with which the Communists were trying to disrupt an economy which was showing the first dangerous signs of recovery...