Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned down as an R.O.T.C. instructor by several universities. So Johnson went back to class himself, toured the Army's ground force schools and spent a year at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College. Then, in 1950, came Korea-and overnight the Army needed every combat officer it could muster...
...take time for any final evaluation of their prowess, for a soldier-however well-trained and motivated-only learns to fight by fighting. There should be no lack of opportunity in Viet Nam where, as the Chief of Staff has repeatedly warned, American fighting men may be engaged in combat for many years. As an old soldier, Johnson has also warned repeatedly of negotiations, which the Communists would use as a means to victory on the battlefield...
...impressed-no mean feat, considering the fact that for years the police had been little more than pawns in Saigon's political chess games. President Diem turned them into a family guard and on occasion played them off against the army. He created a subdivision known as the "combat police" that he used to raid pagodas during the feud with the Buddhists that ultimately led to his downfall. After Diem's government was overthrown, the canh sat were so demoralized that the Americans often called them "the white mice" because of their timidity...
...number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many of them trained by 144 U.S. policemen imported by AID's Public Safety Division. Eventually, the number may grow to 100,000 -enough to move in behind combat troops once an area is cleared of Viet...
After time off to cover combat in World War II, Woodward returned to the Trib as editor of the sports department. He hired writers of the caliber of Red Smith and horse racing Expert Joe Palmer. He purged his pages of what he called "unholy jargon," banishing such words as horsehide, pigskin, donnybrook, grid battles. When a reporter wrote that someone had "belted a home run," Woodward whipped off his own belt and shouted, "Here, let's see you hit a home run with this." Such was Woodward's pride in his shop that when the managing editor...