Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army combat correspondent, I was attached to the recon troop of the 7th Infantry Division, in whose sector he landed. Heavily guarded by the recon troop, he chatted jovially with each regimental commander, asking each time, "How do you find...
...Democratic Congressman Daniel Flood. "I am concerned," said Flood. "I am not at all satisfied with your answer. I would expect you to have much more to say about that. There is a division of command. The analogy with Malaya is very, very close. There were British combat troops by the thousands in the jungle, and they stayed there. Choppers were used to supply them, and they did not come out. And that is how they beat the guerrillas. There was none of this hit-and-run business. The initiative was British, not guerrilla. In South Viet...
...ended up as Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor's chief of staff. He directed U.S. Army and Marine forces in the landings in Lebanon in 1958. Last fall he was the key commander in the huge "Operation Big Lift" that sent 15,377 men and 445 tons of combat equipment to Europe in 63 hours...
...seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
Just to please coincidence collectors still further, the Federal Aviation Agency announced, in the middle of all the skidding, that next month it was prepared to discuss with leaders of the industry the installation of safety devices on runways to combat the hazards of overshooting...