Word: combat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chekiang, first caught his boss's eye after he was wounded fighting in the Canton army in 1923. Chiang made him an artillery instructor at Whampoa Military Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south for a series of stomach-ulcer operations, he was ordered to Formosa to prepare for the Nationalist retreat...
...arms were live replacements for practice warheads that the U.S. shipped to Cuba's President Batista by mistake in 1957 under the mutual-security pact. They represented no change in the current U.S. embargo on arms to Batista. But the rebels, buffeted by combat and terrorism that have taken at least 3,000 Cuban lives, see the world more and more as either friend or enemy, with no middle ground...
First topic on their agenda: THE HOLY BIBLE, ITS AUTHORITY AND MESSAGE. So far has the pendulum swung from literalist respect for the authority of the Bible, the bishops feel, that even some professing Christians are tending to look upon it as a collection of fairy stories. To combat this tendency, the bishops hope to educate the public to interpret Biblical statements and events in terms of the thought forms of the people who wrote the Scripture down. Said one bishop: "The Bible mustn't be thought of as the Koran is thought of. It hasn...
...salesmen one big reason to work harder: a sales-incentive program for its staff that pays them a cash bonus for new accounts or sales over quotas. In so doing, it joined the growing number of U.S. firms that are putting new stress on sales-incentive programs to combat the recession...
...copy boy; he took it. Later he went to Chicago as a correspondent, returned to New York as a writer. In 1944 he traveled to Parris Island, S.C. on assignment to cover the Marine Corps' athletic program there. He came back a marine, served as a combat intelligence captain in the Pacific, where a Luzon airfield was named after his older daughter Phoebe...