Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have remained here." he said, in a statement reported by the official party newspaper Nepszabadsag. "They live peacefully and work honestly. What shall we do? Shall we live with them on a war footing? Why should we? They don't rise against us. and we only want to combat those who try to overthrow the people's power...
Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 11 p.m.). All about Jacqueline scheduled trip to India and Pakistan. (CBS' Eyewitness and NBC's Huntley Reporting are public service programs, and in the public interest the networks have scheduled them at exactly the same time, apparently on the old combat theory of an eye for an eye, a western for a western, blood for blood, etc.-with the result no viewer can see both...
...power for two days, and in its modern underground garages, scores of automobiles disappeared beneath the oily waves. Driven from their holes by the floods, packs of rats fed on the carcasses of dead animals. Fearing the pollution of the water supply, authorities flew water in by helicopter to combat the threat of typhoid and cholera...
...stalked about under enemy fire as though he were daring anyone to hit him. He had an abiding love for the enlisted man who did the killing and the dying, and a sneering hatred for the staff officer who did the sitting and the meddling. He thrived on combat until he became a legend to his troops-the toughest fighting man in the whole United States Marines. His name was Lewis Burwell ("Chesty") Puller, and when he was retired in 1955 as a lieutenant general, he was the most decorated man in Marine Corps history...
...Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended...