Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Bounce. A Vermonter, Greene is an Annapolis graduate, won his first Legion of Merit for planning the Marshall Islands invasion, his second for combat on Saipan and Tinian. In 1956 he headed the investigation into the Parris Island recruit drownings, later revised the Corps' training program. Since early 1958 Greene has been in Washington, the last three years as Shoup's chief of staff...
...maintain diplomatic relations with Indonesia despite Sukarno's provocations. Though Sukarno backed down slightly and restored phone and telegraph communications with Malaysia, Britain's military headquarters in the Far East were making full preparations to fight if Sukarno carried his threats to the point of outright combat...
...Philippines' objection stems from its claim to Sabah. However, this claim is both tenuous and obscure, and the Philippines have showed no aggressive tendencies. Indonesia has been less reticent. President Sukarno has promised to crush Malaysia and has sent combat troops to the borders of Sarawak and Sabah...
After serving in the Air Force as a B-29 crew member (nine combat missions in the Pacific), Wallace returned to Alabama, put on his political boxing gloves and began slugging. He talked himself into a job as state assistant attorney general, and in 1947 was elected to the legislature. There he sponsored a series of New Dealish bills aimed at helping Alabama in its desperate reach for prosperity...
...that of megalomaniac Lord Northcliffe, creator of Britain's all-too-popular press. But the chief villain is one who usually appears as a fictional hero-the sensitive leftwing intellectual. Tony Caldecott had been the editor of a Quaker-financed liberal weekly and survives the war with a combat-won Military Cross and consciousness of a desperate cowardice known only to himself and his dead comrades. Between 1918 and 1939, he profitably combines sensational political journalism with the business of being an undercover agent of the Communist Party. He has a charm of a kind, and Lord Pontypool...