Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though DDT has worked wonders, malaria has proved such a versatile foe that WHO researchers are going to extraordinary lengths to combat the mosquitoes that carry it. In Pavia, Italy, they are practicing artificial insemination on mosquitoes to overcome the insects' natural shyness about reproducing in captivity...
Marxist concept of culture and fantasy-life with another concept of combat. Like the West, the United States opposes the Marxist concept with freedom of interpretation in regard to the past, with freedom of creation in regard to the present-and also with a singular discovery, which is art's power of metamorphosis. However terrible an age, its art transmits only its music. The humanity of dead artists, when it transmits a scourge like the Assyrian horror, for all the torturer-kings of its bas-reliefs, fills our memory with the majesty of the Wounded Lioness...
TIME's otherwise brilliant article on General Paul Harkins and the Viet Nam war [May 11] overlooks a serious failing in our guerrilla warfare efforts-language. A U.S. Ranger in full combat gear seems far less like an intruder in a remote village if he can speak Vietnamese with its inhabitants. Yet even Special Forces troops in Viet Nam rarely receive more than a four-week cram course in local language and culture before beginning their assignments...
Though things were falling apart in Laos, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara, clad in suntans and heavy-soled combat boots, took a firsthand look at the Vietnamese war and came away with guarded optimism...
...rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...