Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game), was the direct source of the leak ("Hell" said an old Pentagon hand, "that was no leak, it was a fire hose"). The inside dope from the Parks office, as splashed out in the Pentagon pressroom: the atomic submarine Nautilus is really unsuited for combat; it is too big, too expensive, too noisy; its torpedo tubes were added as an afterthought; its sonar equipment will not work at high speed; it has no safety features. All the criticisms were either false or distorted, and some of them were ridiculous as well...
...Army ordered the discharge of 20,000 "professional privates" who 1) scored 14 or less (out of a possible 100) on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, 2) served a full three-year enlistment or more without getting to be corporals or better, 3) were never decorated or wounded in combat. Early last month, the Navy issued a ban against re-enlistment of men considered incapable of climbing to petty officer third class...
...Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Sergeant Hiroshi Miyamura, 28, who spent 28 months in a Communist prison after killing more than 50 enemy soldiers in singlehanded night combat in Korea (TIME...
...government as "graft-ridden." I will not claim that my administration was 100% free of graft. No administration-democratic or dictatorial-could ever make that sweeping claim, just as no nation could truthfully boast that it is free of crime. What a government can and should do is to combat graft or crime with all the vigor possible under the circumstances in which it holds office; and, if TIME should care to look up the actual record, you will have to agree that I was the Cuban executive who made the most consistent and the most fundamental efforts to curb...
...landed behind U.S. lines by North Korean Pilot Noh Keum Suk on Sept. 21 was flown in simulated combat against Sabre jets by Major General Albert Boyd, commander of Wright Air Development Center, by Major "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound, and by Captain Harold E. Collins, who set an official speed record in a Sabre jet. After putting the MIG through its paces, they decided that it 1) has "insufficient stall warning"; 2) has a cramped, uncomfortable cabin with poor heating and ventilation; 3) is hard to control in combat; 4) is "deficient in speed...