Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jolly-ups are with us no longer, and a new battle has begun in the War between the Sexes at Harvard. No longer will the race be to the swift or the victory to the bold. Open combat has been officially outlawed. To a world already overcharged with turmoil and flux, an additional burden of anxiety has been added. From this date onward only the crafty will survive...
Vision & Hope. Moore followed his father's wish and became a teacher, but World War I liberated him. He joined the 15th London Regiment, put in a long stretch of monotony in France that culminated in a surrealistic burst of four days' combat at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He was gassed and invalided. Instead of returning to teaching at war's end. he took an ex-soldier's educational grant and enrolled in the School of Art at Leeds...
Garden experts suggest applying regular doses of poison and keeping eternal vigilance, or gently pulling crab grass out by the roots. They are putting their hopes in new, specialized chemicals that have been developed to combat the weed. Many a homeowner has found the most comfortable way to beat crab grass is to join it. Says Washington Building Manager Mrs. Adeline Watson: "I'm sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago...
...terrible day when he was caught in a Japanese earthquake and watched in horror as rescuers sawed through the arm of a pinned victim. He recalls with fine comic effect two G.I.s in top hats putting on a mock duel in the Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat medics on bouncing Jeeps who, "kneeling and balancing and clinging miraculously with one arm, raised the other high, as one would a torch, holding a bottle of plasma, pouring life back into a broken body. I think I have never seen a soldier kneeling thus who was not in some...
...more" here than meets the eye may sometimes verge on the sentimental. But no combat soldier will think for a moment that this quota of sentimentality is unusual. It was often a saving grace, and so Mydans uses it. He can remember the day when, boarding the U.S.S. Enterprise in 1940, he, as a photographer, was sent below with the enlisted men, while his companions, writers, were berthed in "officers' country." Today, even if the same discrimination were still being practiced, Writer Mydans could move in with his fellow writers...