Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Combat &Command. His first years as a junior officer in a battlewagon and destroyer of the surface Navy did nothing to change Felt. Then, out of sheer boredom, he put in for flight training. From the start, flying became the focus of his life. And with his new enthusiasm he recovered the old drive that his mother had tried so hard to nurture. At Pensacola he met a pretty Alabama girl named Kathryn Cowley, and next day he wrote his mother that he had found the woman he was going to marry. A few weeks later he let Kathryn...
...soon as he got his wings, Don Felt seemed to get more than his share of combat and command posts-experience that built the basis of his skill as CINCPAC...
...abuse of language to call "Citizen Tom Paine a soldier-atheist"? He was an avowed deist who wrote The Age of Reason to combat French irreligion...
Just as dismaying was the fact that the commissioning of Constellation will be delayed at least a year, and with it the Navy's tightly scheduled combat readiness program. The largest of the Forrestal class carriers, with a capacity of 100 planes (including 15 of the lethal A3D jet bombers), Constellation is the pride of the fleet. Even more dismaying was New York Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr.'s free-spoken implication that the fire could have been avoided or minimized. The use of metal scaffolding (standard equipment on all city-owned piers), he said, would have...
...sings, dances, waltzes a bull, tools a Jag, rolls them bones, engages in cagy combat with a self-opening door, and carries off scene after lifeless scene with a diffident charm that almost completely conceals his formidable comic...