Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open like yawning hippopotamuses. The 14,000 Air Force reservists that had been ordered to active duty were told that they might have to serve as long as one year. The Tactical Air Command had fighter-bombers and troop transports ready to go. The Strategic Air Command was on combat alert, with a fleet of B-52 bombers carrying nuclear bombs in the air at all times...
...Cabinet took its time trying to decide, the RCAF took matters into its own hands. Responsible for sharing in the defense of an air corridor point at the industrial heart of North America. RCAF commanders brought their five squadrons (64 planes) of U.S.-built F-101B Voodoo interceptors to combat readiness; air bases were sealed off, planes were fueled and armed-but with relatively ineffectual high-explosive warheads, not the nuclear tips their Falcon rockets must have to wipe out an entire squadron of attacking bombers in one blast. There was no point even alerting the Bomarc missile squadron...
...department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years at Harvard. When the faculty got so good that he had to combat counter-raiders, Sterling set up "The Fighting Fund," an emergency war chest for matching bids of other universities for Stanford professors. Says Sterling: "We used to offer salubrious climate and living conditions. Now we meet the competition with dollars and throw in the sunshine...
...where the difference lay." The New York Herald Tribune's Washington Correspondent David Wise accused President Kennedy of deliberate deception, and decided that this was worse than the crisis itself: "If the line between truth and falsehood should become permanently clouded, then the republic, in an effort to combat the perils without, faces an even greater danger within." Editorialized the Los Angeles Times: "You can't both con the press and count...
...damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center piano), and bend the playgoer's ear without touching his heart or prickling...