Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teach them how to survive on the battlefield. The recruits "attack" while machine guns are fired over their heads, are ambushed by a tear-gas attack and end up marching 15 miles and bivouacking in the field for a week. The men have to pass a final exam in combat skills. Anyone who flunks twice has to take the entire seven-week course over again...
Critics maintain that the rapidly growing Cancer Institute, stimulated by 1971 registration calling for a major effort to combat cancer, has monopolized research resources...
DURING THE YEARS of the Vietnam War--between 1964 and 1973--the American military establishment apparently used Indochina as a laboratory in which to test the latest technological developments, in the manufacture of combat weapons. The nature of this war, in which a conventional army was compelled to fight a guerilla force on the latter's terms, demanded advances not merely in standard weaponry, but also in a relatively now and expanding form of warfare antipersonnel weapons...
Mosley attributed the small number of transfers admitted in the past in part to Harvard's "tight" transfer admission policy. A survey of 20 major colleges conducted by Mosley last year revealed that Harvard was the only school that did not use the transfer admissions process to combat attrition from the original student body, Mosley said...
Back in 1844, social critics condemned the polka as a menace to life, limb and morality. They should have lived long enough to see the Kung Fu, the latest dance fad karateing the country. Inspired by the Oriental hand-to-hand combat form (via the weekly TV series of the same name) and a best-selling spin-off record called Kung Fu Fighting, the dance resembles a samurai samba...