Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statements concerning Senator Brewster's campaign against Governor Wallace [May 29] were the most precise I have seen. Instead of appealing to the intelligence of the voters (the logical way to combat stupidity), Brewster relied solely on a name-calling campaign until it was too late. Surely the Maryland primary will not cause concern about the "Northern backlash...
...declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss their latest efforts to combat antiSemitism. There, Catholics and Protestants attended a service of prayer at the city's Jewish temple in honor of "Jules Isaac...
...fact remains that the 28s and 26s, even though beefed-up for combat, were ill-prepared to take the beating of a drawn-out war in Viet Nam-and were kept too long. Many of the T-28s were flown 4,000 hours or more; a B-26 once returned riddled by 40 bullet holes, was back in the air two days later. When Viet Cong firepower increased, so did the stresses on the motley fleet's wings-already loaded down with armament-as pilots pulled up more abruptly from attack dives. Last week Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert...
Belated Beef-Up. Last week Pentagon sources revealed that around 50 sturdier Douglas Skyraider dive bombers have already been shipped to Viet Nam and that 75 more would arrive by the end of the summer-to replace both the B-26s and the remaining combat T-28s. Though also a prop-driven World War II craft, the Skyraider is a much more powerful warplane and almost twice as fast as the B26. Armed with 20-mm. cannon, Skyraiders distinguished themselves in Korea for their close support of the Marines. But the improvement is belated. As to the question...
...Except for cutting some lines for pace, he trusts the author and the playgoer, for a change, and the play flashes like an unsheathed sword, keen, virile, inescapably compelling. It is a patriot's poem of valor, a memorial ode written in the bright and acrid air of combat for all men who ever fought, bled and died for their country's honor...