Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only problem this entails is that to shorten the list for a minority is to penalize the majority by the reduced selection. It would seem, though, that most room-seekers would be willing to cut down their percentage chances of finding a place in order to combat even this mild form of racial bigotry. Besides, the University should not be a party to such discriminatory practices, a fact which the University undoubtedly knows...
Strong State to Combat Strife...
...arise! You have been betrayed by your protectors. Just think of the non-birth-controlling Roman Catholics busy filling the world with more non-birth-controlling Catholics; while you are conserving air, water and food through birth control, the fruitful Catholics are gobbling it all up. The way to combat this problem: beget more Anglicans...
...miles away from the Marine base, Matador missiles-capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto mainland China-stood on 24-hour alert, their crews constantly rehearsing countdowns. Elsewhere on the same field, a Chinese air force major, fresh from a kill of a Communist MIG, talked over combat tactics with an American captain who was about to take him up in one of the F-100 Super Sabres which the U.S. is providing to replace the slower Thunderjets and Sabres now flown by the Nationalists...
...Communists should decide to convert their harassment of Quemoy into a no-holds-barred war, the U.S. was ready. Last week the disparate units and individuals on Formosa were reorganized into a unified combat command under Vice Admiral Roland Smoot. Between them, the new Formosa Defense Command and the Seventh Fleet's Task Force 77 could hammer China with a destructive power unequalled in the previous history of warfare. But, barring an almost incredible improvement in supply techniques, the Chinese Communists held Quemoy in a vise so tight that they need never challenge the mighty force that...