Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued building up its nuclear and conventional forces to strengthen its military might around the world. The Army started raising its strength from eleven to a planned 16 combat divisions, got a badly needed infusion of modern equipment. Draft calls were increased, and some 156,000 reservists and National Guardsmen were called to active duty (some of them have been screaming ever since). Down to the smallest detail, Kennedy himself discussed ways in which the U.S. might combat Communist guerrillas in strategic areas of the earth. In a meeting with military leaders to decide which weapons ought to be sent...
South Viet Nam planes dropped flares over Due Hoa and used the glaring illumination to strafe and bomb the Viet Cong positions outside the village. By morning, truckloads of troops were converging on Due Hoa to follow up the retreating guerrillas. Not only South Vietnamese combat soldiers were being employed. U.S. Specialist Four James T. Davis, 25, of Livingston, Tenn., was riding a three-quarter-ton Signal Corps truck equipped with a location finder to spot a clandestine Red radio transmitter that has been broadcasting messages to Communist North Viet Nam. On Communal Road No. 10, a little before noon...
...seemed like just another Christmas dance in Goa's capital city of Pangim. Still dressed in their jungle-green combat uniforms, 300 Indian army officers of the conquering "Black Cat" 17th division shuffled in time to the music. Patiently the 300-man stag line waited to dance with the only women who had been inveigled to attend the dance-three lonely Goan girls. "They don't like us," said an Indian officer. "They don't want jungle green here. They want white skins...
...Director Robert Rossen, in a formidable, expert and exciting commercial movie, promulgates a slangy, sexy saga of the pool halls, a remodeled myth in which the old king of the cuestick (Jackie Gleason) yields his laurels to the new (Paul Newman), but only after an enormously exciting trial by combat...
RESISTANCE, REBELLION AND DEATH, by Albert Camus. These actuelles, as the author called them, are short, passionate sermons on the theology of politics, justice and death, several of them written during World War II as editorials for the underground paper Combat. Camus thought as highly of them as he did of his novels and longer philosophical essays, and he may well have been right...