Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-planned trip to the U.S. and apologize to the Emperor. Survivors of that fight recall the arrival of an opposition leader, Bu-kichi ("Big Badger") Miki, who vehemently objected to Western dress and always wore a kimono. He showed up for the fight dressed in army fatigues and combat boots, explained to colleagues that "you can't kick with a kimono on, you know...
Here Shakespeare has pitted Nature against human nature. He has underscored the similarities between the two, between man and animal. The forces of good and evil appear in mortal combat; those of good succumb, but in the process those of evil destroy themselves as well...
...Montini, the church's task was to convert Communists, not combat them -and the weapons of conversion were spiritual. He invited Franciscan and Jesuit preachers to conduct Billy Graham-style crusades on Milan's streets, and in a city with more than 1,000 churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile...
...invitation of the U.S. Army, I observed the use of helicopters in combat in Viet Nam and want to congratulate you on your excellent story [June 7] on the use our troops are making there of the "Huey" or UH 1-B Iroquois...
...commencement address, Adlai E. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations warned that "steady intelligence in command of the facts" is all we have to combat "panic reactions" in this time of great social upheaval...