Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girls tend to watch less than their boy friends. "Even on the night we became engaged," moans a Texas coed, "my fiance wouldn't come over for our date until Combat was over." But when they do watch (in curlers and bathrobes that neatly match the underwear and sweatshirts being worn across the way in the frats), they watch Dr. Kildare and that "cute" David Janssen on Fuge. Vassar hard-core viewers categorically refuse to bring outsiders up to date on Peyton Place. And at most women's colleges, a few devotees check every lunch hour...
...took just 65 minutes to put 1,400 marines ashore with rifles, machine guns, rocket and grenade launchers. At Danang, the brigade's other battalion came in the easy way-by air from Okinawa. Both battalions came prepared for heavy combat: they had 105-mm. howitzers, M48 medium tanks, 106-mm. recoilless rifles...
...called on a nearby howitzer battery for flare shells to illuminate the area, then swept the slope with a barrage of machine-gun and mortar fire. Though there were no signs of bodies the next morning, the marines were delighted with the radar's performance in its first combat tests. Chuckled one machine gunner: "I'll bet they wondered how we knew they were out there...
...even after leading the Met through a decade of spectacular growth, Rorimer still prowls the museum like a bemused headmaster. Wearing ankle-high combat boots that go back to his Army days,* he roams the halls, wiping dust off display cases, bellowing "Please don't touch the art objects!" when kids tweak a sphinx's beard, or sternly lecturing an adult caressing a caryatid's curple: "That's 4,000 years old. If everyone who saw that had touched it, it wouldn't be here...
...flush of success, Butler sent poorly officered troops into combat at Big Bethel-the war's first battle-and got whipped. Though Big Bethel was soon forgotten in the greater Union calamity at Bull Run, it established Butler's reputation as an inept field commander. But when New Orleans was taken, Butler was sent to take over the occupation...