Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion Williams drew from the episode suggest the argument that has persuaded many integrationists that the tactic of violence in self-defense is the only way to combat the anarchic legal system in the South. "As a result of our stand, and our willingness to fight, the state of North Carolina had enforced law and order. Just two state troppers did the job and no one got hurt in a situation where normally (in the South) a lot of Negro blood would have flowed. The city closed the pool for the rest of the year and we withdrew the picket...
Testifying before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, chaired by Mississippi's John Stennis, Army Intelligence Chief Alva R. Fitch indicated that some Soviet technicians are indeed being removed-but a lot of Russian combat troops are digging...
Battle Station. Outsiders are not, of course, permitted on the combat patrols. But just before the Ethan Allen departed on its two-month journey, TIME Military Correspondent Louis Kraar did have a rare opportunity to accompany the sub on a week-long shakedown cruise. His report...
William Gurdon Saltonstall himself went to Exeter, and was the tenth generation Saltonstall at Harvard, where he earned five varsity letters in crew, hockey and football. He joined Exeter in 1932 to teach history, and after World War II, in which he saw combat aboard the carrier Bunker Hill, returned as chairman of the history department. In 1946 he was so popular that hundreds of boys marched through the rain to cheer his appointment as Exeter's ninth principal. "Call me Salty." said he when the cheermakers stumbled over his name, and so they have ever since...
...stalemate. But this has been accomplished by active American military participation in the fighting. Already at least fifty-three American servicemen have been killed. American air force pilots, stationed in south Vietnam as technical advisers under orders to shoot only if shot at, are now flying actual combat missions. Until recently these U.S. air force personnel had been limited to transporting soldiers and supplies in helicopters--bananas, the natives call them--to the front. But apparently there just aren't enough South Vietnamese pilots around to do all the fire-bombing and strafing missions themselves...