Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divisional structure, a beefing-up of its conventional strength, and asked for an added $100 million to purchase nonnuclear matériel from howitzers to helicopters. He said he had instructed Defense Secretary McNamara to set up a program that would enable ten reserve divisions to go into combat within eight weeks of the outbreak of war. Another $60 million was requested to recruit 14,000 new marines, increasing the strength of the corps...
Seoul embassy had backed the wrong horse by its abrupt support of the ousted Premier. But in Seoul, General Chang stood before reporters in his combat fatigues to shrug it all off. "There should be no trouble at all as far as U.S. -Korean relations are concerned," said Chang. "Our armed forces in the past have had closer relations with U.S. authorities than any other Korean agency. Therefore I believe the U.S. Government will support us more positively than ever before...
...marched on Nancy, and after a cruel struggle the city fell in 1633. It was this that inspired the Miseries and Misfortunes of War. At a time when war was considered heroic, Callot showed it as it was. His series begins with a majestic parade and then a savage combat scene wreathed in smoke. But the horror is in the aftermath. Churches go up in flames, men are set on fire in their castles, tiny firing squads claim victim after victim, a man is broken on a wheel, 21 corpses hang from a single tree. Callot's etchings...
Kingdom of Fantasy. These works rarely showed gods, nor did they often portray men, as in the combat scene surmounting the golden comb (see color). The favorite subjects of the Scythians were animals, and few civilizations created an animal kingdom with a more graceful sense of fantasy. A boar's mane is not just so much wild and scraggly hair, but a crescent of curls to be worn like a crown. A tiger's body is as supple as an accordion: every muscle, every rib, every stripe is there. A deer, though kneeling, seems to be darting through...
Founder of 3R is rumpled, rugged James W. Kirchanski, 41, who looks and sometimes roars like the combat paratrooper he was in World War II. "I eat, sleep and breathe the idea of trying to develop a literate public," says Kirchanski. He dislikes "snob" private schools as much as he does progressive public ones. "I'm not trying to form a precious little Groton or Eton. This is for kids, rich and poor, who want to learn. And what do we teach that's so damned unusual? Only the classics-reading, writing and arithmetic, the tools a human...