Word: combate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dentist or a dental hygienist. More than 1.5 million persons have tested the paste thus far. The results: a 40%-95% reduction in tooth decay over a three-year period, depending on whether or not a treated person also drinks fluoridated water regularly. In Viet Nam, 400,000 combat troops, who average only one brushing every 21 days, have taken the treatment. Two hundred thousand additional soldiers will have their teeth scrubbed every three months...
...PHRASEMAKER. My friends, in calling for law and order, we must not stop the fight to combat despair. We must stand for a hand up, not a handout...
...other side, the Viet Cong has taken full advantage of the martial tradition of Vietnamese women, a tradition that goes back to the two Trung sisters' fight to repel Chinese invaders in A.D. 39. Running short of male conscripts, the Communists have lately recruited all-female combat units. Women now make up an estimated one-third to one-half of V.C. main-force troops...
...next two groups of essays, Nuptials (1938) and Summer (1954), Camus' ideas about how to combat life's absurdities deepen as he faces the dark despondency he finds in Europe. Like a fallen angel, he keeps looking homeward for the revitalizing sensual graces of Algeria. And in these journeys are intimations of the ideas in his future writings. In the heavy stone city of Oran, he finds a refreshing boredom in the ordinary down-to-earth commercialism that appears as the setting for his later novel, The Plague. Among the flowers and ruins at Tipasa, Camus discovers that...
Linebacking coach Ralp Jelic, however, points out that certain adjustments must be made. The entire defensive line must shift towards the strong side of the Princeton line. The Tigers also often double-team on blocking, and to combat this, Harvard can stack men in the seams or try to split the double team. By jumping around from one spot to another, the Crimson's linebackers can foul up these blocks...