Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth day of the "offensive," President Fulgencio Batista's government finally issued a statement denying that its army was engaged in "fullscale combat" in Oriente-"only small skirmishes," it said. Other reports indicated that heavy rains and a sea of mud had bogged down the troops and grounded the air force...
...broken retreat. Five wounds, Heinrich's personal quota, do not necessarily make a war novelist, but his first book, The Cross of Iron (TIME, April 23, 1956), proved that no contemporary novelist was better than he at the grisly business of describing the meat grinder of infantry combat. Crack of Doom, another look at the disintegration of German military power, is also an advanced reader for other writers about war on how to do closeups of men fighting hopelessly toward ends that are totally beyond their comprehension...
...order to combat the instability and weakness of French politics, de Gaulle proposes to strengthen executive powers in the government by means of a constitutional reform measure submitted to the people for general approval. Such a change has been necessitated by the failure of the present parliamentary system, under which no strong legislation can win a majority because the Assembly is fragmented into numerous antagonistic political factions and is recurrently hamstrung by the obstructive tactics of 142 Communists. General de Gaulle, moreover, is probably one of the few leaders who would stand a chance of getting such a reform bill...
After twelve minutes' bitter combat, the limousine bucked ahead, bound for the tomb of Simón Bolívar, where Nixon was scheduled to lay a wreath. A block from the tomb the car suddenly veered off into a side street. Glancing through a shattered side window, Nixon could see a mob of 3,000 rioters, mostly high school students, waiting for him. (Days later, policemen found 400 Molotov cocktails cached in the basement of a nearby house.) The limousine sped off to the safety of the U.S. embassy residence...
Double-Edged Sword. The "government sadhus," as old-line holy men already contemptuously call them, are expected to return to their own parts of the country equipped to combat such evils as the caste system, official corruption, adulteration of foodstuffs and the disuniting influence of local dialects. They will also try to debunk the sadhu as an object of superstitious awe by presenting themselves simply as do-gooders, rather than miracle men, and interpreting Hindu scripture in terms of social service...