Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit, Premier Yitzhak Rabin told the Israeli Parliament that his government was carrying out "a combination of two efforts, preparation for the possibility of war and a drive toward peace." Preparations for war include a call-up of army reserve mechanics to get all mobile equipment in combat shape and a review of all men under the age of 54 who had previously been disqualified from service for medical reasons...
C.W.S. is winning another sort of fame, however, as the latest agency to be swept up in the battle within Protestantism over social-action methods. According to one combat-fatigued C.W.S. staffer, the issue is "whether the National Council is going to radicalize us out of existence...
Despite the widespread occurrence of breast cancer, however, its treatment remains in dispute. A study released last week by the National Cancer Institute has added to the longstanding debate over the best surgical technique to combat breast cancer. The common procedure, and the one performed on Mrs. Ford, is radical mastectomy, a disfiguring and sometimes partially disabling operation that involves removal of the breast, the underlying pectoral muscle and the lymphatic tissue under...
...Fall of 1941--and the film is the story of Alyosha's odyssey, journeying from the collapsing front lines back into the heartland of Russia. He is sidetracked during the trip by several isolated episodes. He comes to the aid of a soldier who, having lost a leg in combat, is afraid to return home to his wife; he goes out of his way to bring greetings to the wife of a fellow soldier, and deliver her two bars of soap, only to discover that she is living with another man. And most importantly, he meets and falls in love...
...writer was an OSS combat officer during World War II, and in the 1960s served as the State Department's director of intelligence and research and as Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. He is now a professor of politics at Columbia University...