Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime stripped Kubitschek of his political rights for ten years, but his party was allowed to campaign, spurred on by his behind-the-scene direction from Paris. Its victory constituted an almost unbearable provocation for Brazil's military. At one point last week, army units went on combat alert across the country, and in front of the War Ministry in Brasilia appeared a quickly scrawled sign: THEY SHALL NOT RETURN...
...auspices, the U.S. military posture has been dramatically strengthened by percentages that McNamara himself so often recites that they have become known around the Pentagon as "the litany": a 200% increase in both the number and destructive power of U.S. nuclear weapons; a 45% rise in the number of combat-ready Army divisions; a 51% gain in the number of tactical fighter squadrons; a 100% increase in both military airlift capacity and in naval construction; a tenfold jump in the size of special, counterinsurgency forces...
...over a month, the "kill ratio" of combat dead has been running more than 3 to 1 in favor of the allies, a clear reflection of the fact that it is now the U.S. and Saigon that have the initiative and the guerrillas the defensive. Moreover, the U.S. is constantly adding to its variety of offensive capabilities: fortnight ago, 15 miles south of Qui Nhon, a U.S. Marine raiding force in battalion strength stormed ashore from assault boats of the Seventh Fleet's amphibious task force, swept three coastal areas in Operation Dagger Thrust. Though the marines nabbed...
Although he usually restricts himself to verbal combat, Farmer sometimes leads forays into the field. In 1961, his first year as CORE chief, he directed and rode on the first Freedom Ride--thereby earning himself a month in a Mississippi jail. During August of 1963 he narrowly evaded pursuing Louisiana Klansmen by hiding in a mortuary and slipping out in the back of a hearse...
...publicly stated what has become a hard fact of life: the U.S. cannot afford any more Communist takeovers among the nations of Latin America. The resolution proclaimed the right of the U.S. or any other American republic to intervene, with "armed force" if need be, "to forestall or combat" Communist subversion or aggression wherever it may occur in the Western Hemisphere...