Word: combat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infantry divisions and two armored divisions, armed with M48 Patton tanks, atomic cannon. Honest John and Redstone missiles) would be outmatched against the 22 Russian divisions in East Germany (4,000 new T-54 tanks) and the 125,000 to 150.000 Red-impressed German militiamen. NATO's 21 combat-ready divisions, organized for defense, would not likely be committed to road-opening chores...
Jersey state mediation board. The tall professor studied at Harvard, Cambridge and the University of Aberdeen, did combat intelligence work during World War II as a captain in the Army Air Force...
...newly formed Veritas Foundation has sent 15,000 letters to selected alumni, asking financial support to combat "Harvard's trend to the left." Three New York members of the former Veritas Committee, which opposed the 1957 appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer as William James Lecturer, are trustees of the Foundation...
...where Harry passed for a time as a "Frenchy" from Martinique. But he could not keep it up: "Once I got really hot and spilled the beans." After that, the fights were more frequent and more vicious than ever. Belafonte still bears a few of the scars of street combat, but, he says, "the emotional scars were worse. I was good at sports, and when they chose up sides they always chose me first. I was accepted then, but it never carried over. I would be sitting there on my stoop, and I'd see the guys going...
...Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught virtually every word that mattered...