Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice he is forever broke, spending thousands of dollars to represent indigent Negroes. Personal ambition? Perhaps. Twice he has run for Congress, and twice he has been defeated, but he might try again. Yet what obviously drives him is an inner anger combined with the sharp joy of combat...
...York twice appealed for exemption from the World War I draft as a conscientious objector. Twice denied, he trained reluctantly in the Army, faced a religious dilemma when ordered overseas for combat duty. With his Bible in hand, he climbed into the Cumberlands on furlough, pondered the problem for two days, came down to announce: "I'm goin'." That decision, as it turned out, led to his becoming the most celebrated G.I. in America's military history. Of such legendary stuff was York made that Gary Cooper easily parlayed an unusually accurate film biography into...
...wounded again. "I saw this reflection of sunshine on something coming down. It was an artillery shell, and it hit right behind me." A piece of shrapnel tore a jagged hole in Bauer's left thigh. His part of the war was over -after 32 months of combat, eleven campaign ribbons, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts...
...being more flexible, can quickly change their product mix to accommodate special orders. "We can cook steel to order in 20 minutes," says Vice President Grady L. Roark of Chicago's Acme Steel. With lean executive staffs, the smaller companies can also reorganize in a hurry to combat tough times. Delaware's long-ailing Phoenix Steel has been revamped in 19 months by new President Stanley Kirk, who has turned red ink to black by cutting the production force 11% and shutting down or selling off money-losing facilities...
...Done. The thesis of Hermand's book was too revolutionary even for the left-wing Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), which bitterly assailed it. Yet Paris' Le Monde gave the book extensive coverage, while Combat and other papers came openly to Hermand's defense. Vatican influence banished the book from Catholic bookshops in Rome. In Portugal the government ordered the Portuguese edition of 3,000 copies seized after it went on sale, but the cops managed to round up only 200 volumes...