Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once arrogant-or at least voluble -Castro soldiers ringing the base are not so cocky any more. In a month Guantanamo has been transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity...
...Germans, Dr. Kreyssig's Aktion Suhnezeichen (roughly, Operation Penitence) asks nothing of Israel but the right to work without pay on Israeli projects. Says a spokesman of the organization: "Only by sharing the life of the Jewish people and helping overcome the feeling against us can we combat anti-Semitism...
...also becoming increasingly worried about the estimated 70 Il-28 ''Beagle" jet bombers that had been shipped into Cuba by the Soviet Union. Armed with nuclear bombs, the planes have a combat radius of 750 miles-far enough to reach New Orleans, Montgomery, Ala., and Charleston. S.C. The Administration last week was telling the Russians at the U.N. that the planes must go, along with the missiles. But the Russians blandly said that the bombers were Cuban property, and Castro vowed they would never be returned...
...claim they can still hear echoes of the thunderous tackle he made on Navy's William ("Barnacle Bill") Busik. As a lieutenant on the submarine Tirante during World War II, he won the Silver Star for leading raiding parties aboard Japanese craft and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Yet for all such exploits-and despite his heritage as a member of one of Massachusetts' most celebrated Yankee families-Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 42, until last week was a chronic political loser...
Compared with conductors of the Koussevitzky-Toscanini generation, Markevitch pointed out, the modern conductor has far less rehearsal time and about four times as many concerts to give each year. To combat the fatigue of traveling, he must build "the body of a conductor. One's body must be completely independent of the music." His own body, Markevitch boasted, has become so independent that "at the end of a symphony. I'm breathing at the same rate as at the beginning...