Word: combated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline of horse culture) and nudism in Yugoslavia (when the sun goes down, the naked dress up) range knowingly over such touchy subjects as taste and class. At his most potent, Fussell takes on two hazardous areas: meeting an enemy in battle and engaging the English language in single combat. He has had victories on both fronts, as an infantry officer in World War II and as a professor of literature and the author of literary and social criticism, including the much decorated The Great War and Modern Memory...
Hence, "thank God for the atom bomb," a phrase originally used by another appreciative combat veteran and writer, William Manchester, in his memoir of the Pacific war, Goodbye Darkness. As Fussell's title, T.G.A.B. is aimed at offending those who feel guilty about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He does not. The dramatic end of the war was both "horrible and welcome." Tens of thousands died, but more than a million Allies and Japanese could have been casualties of an invasion campaign. Because he knows the terror and brutality of combat, Fussell draws a sacred line between the men who were...
...peak in fiscal year 1985, Pentagon budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion. The Pentagon's appetite for deluxe weaponry swallowed up so much of those titanic sums that the buildup failed to achieve some major goals. Overall, it did bring a much needed improvement in U.S. combat strength. But Ronald Reagan's dream of an Army of 18 full-strength divisions, a 40-wing Air Force and a 600-ship Navy remains unfulfilled. The budget for fiscal 1989 funds 18 trimmed-down divisions, 35 wings and 580 fighting ships...
...promises were made to Park, they did no good. Northrop canceled its $1.2 billion F-20 program two years ago without having sold a single plane. The fighters, developed with Northrop's own cash instead of the usual Pentagon backing, lost their appeal after the combat-proven F-16s built by General Dynamics became popular with the Israeli air force and European governments. Then two F-20s crashed in 1984 and 1985, and the U.S. Air Force decided not to buy any of the planes, dooming the fighter's future...
...protesters never made it. About 40,000 combat police, wielding clubs and tossing tear-gas canisters, blocked the roadways and chased militants who tried to catch north-bound trains. Some demonstrators fought back with rocks and fire bombs. By week's end more than 800 students had been taken in for questioning...