Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reared in a prolonged period of world peace, he has a unique sense of control over his own destiny-barring the prospect of a year's combat in a brush-fire war. Science and the knowledge explosion have armed him with more tools to choose his life pattern than he can always use: physical and intellectual mobility, personal and financial opportunity, a vista of change accelerating in every direction...
...life that he must serve a military tour of duty, indeed has planned it along with college, marriage and choice of vocation. From the moment he arrives (usually aboard a comfortable troop ship), through his bivouac experience (under conditions less arduous than most Stateside weekend hunting camps), to combat itself (as intense as any in history, but brief), he is supported by the best that his country can offer-even though it is to fight a mean and dirty...
...swiftly moved into and out of combat in planes, helicopters or trucks...
...combat-weary Negro officer in the Viet Nam jungles to accept the stereotypes about the Negro...
...Weekly began as one of countless Jewish bulletins providing information on people in refugee camps. As the Jews left Germany, the refugee sheets disappeared-except for one which was taken over by Marx, a German-Jewish journalist who had spent the war in England and had now returned. A combat veteran of World War I and an ardent German nationalist, Marx had a clear goal in mind. "From the first," he said, "I wanted to re-ignite Jewish life in Germany...