Word: combat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something more and something different. Ohio-born John Medaris worked his way through high school driving a lobster-shift taxi and street car, began flying at twelve (he lied about his age). On his 16th birthday he enlisted in the Marine Corps, arrived in France too late for combat, was discharged as a corporal, and went back to Ohio State University for a degree in mechanical engineering. As a senior R.O.T.C. cadet, he won an Army commission; six years later he resigned it to work more than ten years in the management-consultant field. He returned to the Army...
...Russia's Sputniks, as evidences of technological and industrial prowess, nudged Western Europe toward neutralism. To combat neutralism the U.S. must show Europe economic and political leadership. With leadership urgently needed, it would be "national folly" for the U.S. to retreat toward protectionism...
...Democrats in this campaign jabbing hardest at defense as an issue? Said Adams: "The opposition gyrates, orates and berates in their frenzy to find a remedy to heal up their sores caused by the continuing combat between the Northern and Southern wings. I concede they have their hands full trying to corral implacably opposed Democrats under one political roof. Their political lasso, evidently, is a headlong attack in the area of their most dismal performance...
Snatched out of school in 1917 to serve in the Ottoman army, Adnan saw no combat in World War I, but made up for that deficiency after the war, when Greece, backed by Britain and France, set out to annex large chunks of the defeated and disintegrating Turkish empire. As a member of the Turkish underground, Menderes took part in a rebellion against the Greek forces occupying his native Aydin. Later, as an army lieutenant, he served under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the offensive that recaptured Izmir from the hapless Greeks. (Among the factors contributing to the defeat...
...member of the National Committee of Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, plans to set out for Eniwetok on Feb. 9 in his 30-foot ketch, the "Golden Rule." He left New York for Los Angeles last night to outfit the vessel. The former commander of three Navy combat ships hopes his action will arouse the conscience of the American people to the peril of nuclear bomb testing...