Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sneered at conflict-of-interest charges. As an Oklahoman, he supported President Truman's ouster of General Douglas MacArthur-mostly because he feared that MacArthur might expand the Korean war to the point that National Guardsmen of Oklahoma's Thunderbird Division might be called into combat. "You say I'm an Oklahoma Senator more than a national Senator?" he often asked. "Yes, that's what I'm here...
...Wood, who for the past few days has been in Cambridge as a guest of Dunster House, has concentrated most of his subsequent research in this same field. During the war, he served as a government consultant on the project that developed combat applications for sulfanilamide and penicillin, two drugs which aid the natural action of white blood cells against infection. Currently, he is studying the process by which blood cells produce the substance that raises a fever...
Vatican II was the first council called neither to combat heresy, pronounce new dogmas nor marshal the church against hostile forces. As the bishops came to Rome to deliberate, Pope John encouraged "holy liberty" in the expression of their views. The bishops, who had long considered Rome the sole source of power and authority in the Catholic world, gathered together for the first time in their lives, discovered that they and not Rome constituted the leadership of the church...
...Strategic Air Command last week took control of a new squadron of twelve Atlas missiles at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upstate New York-bringing to 200 the total of U.S. combat-ready intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nuclear-tipped arsenal includes 126 liquid-fueled Atlases; 54 Titans, a bigger and heavier liquid-fueled missile; and 20 quick-firing, solid-fueled Minutemen. Each has a range of 6,000 miles or more, and each is zeroed in on an assigned target in the Soviet Union. The present total is at least twice the estimated strength of the Russian missile force...
When the Army called up 119,000 reservists and National Guardsmen during the 1961 Berlin crisis, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was appalled at the results. The civilian soldiers stood at a pitiful average of 65% of authorized combat strength. Several supposedly crack divisions were hopelessly out of training, and many of the troops spent most of their time writing Congressmen and complaining to newsmen about the indignity of being summoned to duty. Then and there, McNamara vowed to overhaul and shape up the nation's reserve ranks. Last week he got into action...