Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count the greenbacks spent by Americans on food and drinks at the bars that are springing up everywhere, and on Thailand's lissome young women. Such attractions have made Bangkok increasingly popular as a leave center for U.S. troops seeking "R & R" (rest and recreation) between bouts of combat in South Viet...
...World War I fighter pilot and a mother who had been a wing walker in a flying circus, Schirra took to the air naturally. An Annapolis graduate who flew 90 combat missions in Korea, he is a fast mover on the earth, too, in a maroon Maserati...
...Duck began its bold sniping in 1915, during some of the bleakest days of World War I, when its dry wit turned out to be just what was needed to combat wartime hysteria. At the time, the French press was frantically reporting every defeat as a glorious victory. The Duck did not set out to correct these inaccuracies. Instead, it claimed the biggest victories of all, until it began to make all war reporting look ridiculous. On one occasion, when the press was clucking in astonishment over a German submarine that had traveled as far as the U.S. coast...
Died. Major General Raymond W. Bliss, 77, former (1947-51) Army Surgeon General who, as his service's top medical officer, was instrumental in unifying the armed forces medical-supply system, pushed for higher fitness standards among draftees, and generally improved combat medical facilities to the point where he was able to report a Korean War death rate among wounded of just under 2% (vs. 4.5% in World War II); of complications from emphysema; in Tucson, Arizona...
Both papers carry advice for U.S. servicemen. The Post was happy to tell its readers how to get quick service at the local pubs: "A soft-shoe dance on the bar with combat boots is generally recommended for immediate attention from the establishment's personnel. Other attention-getting devices are obscene noises, self-immolation on the bar stool, a quick change into a bedouin sheik in the toilet, riding in on a water buffalo, faking an epileptic seizure...