Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Fuss. All qualified observers agreed: the Skybolt-B-52 combination makes a splendid weapon. (In Britain, even before last week's test, R.A.F. pilots were itching to strap the rockets under the wings of their Vulcan bombers.) A combat-ready B-52 will carry four Sky-bolts under its wings, each armed with a nuclear warhead that will make it as devastating as the submarine-borne Polaris missiles that are now in service. Both in eventual impact and versatility on the way to its target, Skybolt is an impressive testament to nuclear age technology...
...thousand military personnel. And three thousand more are scheduled to arrive by August. U.S. military advisers in the Operation Sunrise region alone have increased from a dozen at the beginning of the year to more than 1400 now. The State Department claims these military personnel are present in non-combat capacity. But U.S. soldiers are taking part in tactical operations, airlifting supplies and combat equipment to strategic places; and U.S. helicopters have been transporting South Vietnamese troops into the jungle and sometimes pursuing guerilla attackers...
...more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of widely spaced new landings on New Guinea's coast and Waigeo Island, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops). And by compelling The Hague to ship new troops to the Pacific on the eve of a big debate on New Guinea in the Dutch Parliament, Sukarno played shrewdly on the knowledge that a bloody defensive war would be unpopular in The Netherlands...
Enders shared the Nobel Prize for and Physiology in 1954 with his Dr. Frederick C. Robbins and Dr. Thomas H. Weller. Their success in poliomyelitis virus in cultures of from human embryos made possible the development of vaccines to combat the disease...
...fought by "amateur soldiers" of a Welsh regiment-"how glad we thought we were to step outside its brackets at the end of '18." In the regiment is Private John Ball, who goes off to France, endures six rainy months in the trenches, then finds combat ended for him with a bullet in the thigh...