Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progressive income tax and therefore not a right-winger; there are three kinds of mental patients: psychotic, neurotic and liberal; foreign aid and military spending have failed; the Alliance for Progress is doomed because poverty isn't the cause of Communism; Christianity is too uninformed and trusting to combat Communism; and anyone venturing into the world without being "informed" is likely to be molested intellectually unless Mama Schwarz warns them about evil men with candy. In good American idiom, Schwarz is a slippery character...
...brother. And I couldn't let my brother fly if I thought he would be in danger. If I detected anything wrong, I would take immediate action." Part of the reason for Glenn's coolness under pressure and disappointment comes from his days as a Marine Corps combat (in World War II and Korea) and test pilot, when he learned to live with danger...
...theory that marines do not pause in combat for pullups and pushups, he has discarded such exercises from the annual physical fitness tests, instead has his men climb ropes, march three miles, dash 50 yards to retrieve a presumably wounded buddy while being timed by a stopwatch. He works the men longer, stressing night training and field exercises...
Most Vietnamese officers are eager to absorb U.S. techniques and combat tactics, and on the military level, U.S. suggestions and Vietnamese orders mesh efficiently. In politics, the situation is more difficult. Last week a government plane flew over Red-held territory to drop prop aganda leaflets bearing Diem's New Year's message to his people. The plane crashed, killing eight Americans and two Vietnamese. Another plane was scheduled to take off later and scatter more leaflets, this .time bearing a good-will message from President John Kennedy. Both sets of leaflets could not be dropped from...
...project might seem doomed to failure by its own pretension. Yet English critics have invoked the name of Tolstoy in praising The Fox in the Attic. No one has caviled that Hughes, who was too young for combat in World War I and too old for combat in World War II, should have chosen to write about both. After all, Tolstoy wrote War and Peace a half-century after Borodino. Hughes himself sets his sights even higher; it occurred to him in the middle of World War II, he explains, that "if I turned my back...