Search Details

Word: combatative (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...culminates in officer-to-officer combat. HUPD has each officer suit up in a facemask, neck protector and bullet-proof vest...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Firing Away: HUPD Hones its Target Skills | 1/23/2001 | See Source »

...with Zoe Baird when the Attorney General-designate disclosed her infamous nanny- tax problem. In general, confirmation hearings serve as a kind of overture to the First Act of a new President, a preview of all the themes and characters that will share the stage and shape the combat for the next four years. Let the trumpets blare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confirmation Bear Traps | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...Crusader on a diet and cut the original buy of 1,138 systems down to 480, for $11 billion. Army generals boast they have turned the program around "nearly on a dime" and that the gun will be ideal for everything "from small-scale contingencies to full combat." But it will still require huge cargo planes to get to war quickly. They may be able to fly a little farther with the lighter Crusader. Perhaps the perfect plane for the Crusader would be one capable of flying it back to the era from which it came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blasting the Crusader | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...competition of alpha males, it would be tough to come up with a closer matchup than combative 60 Minutes reporter MIKE WALLACE and the chest-thumping U.S. Marine Corps. Unfortunately for fans of hand-to-hand combat, a battle between the two parties has escalated only to a war of words. Within days of a crash of the military's troubled V-22 Osprey aircraft, Wallace attempted to contact the pilot's widow. "I did what any reporter would do," Wallace said. "I made a polite, sensitive call." The officer's family and the Marines disagree. In a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 15, 2001 | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...over Chavez. They're simultaneously looking forward to and dreading a big fight. Most figure it's best if a nomination can be defeated before the vote is called; that way they can send the message that polarizing, conservative nominees will not be successful without engaging in full-scale combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Travails Now for Ashcroft? | 1/10/2001 | See Source »

Previous | 532 | 533 | 534 | 535 | 536 | 537 | 538 | 539 | 540 | 541 | 542 | 543 | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | Next