Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words that had a beyond-the-battle feeling about the office. On Dday, he related, he had to decide whether to send two paratroop divisions into battle in a sector where a senior adviser predicted 90% casualties. He eventually decided that the paratroops had to be committed to combat, and ''for years thereafter," he said, "I felt that only once in a lifetime could a problem of that sort weigh as heavily on a man's mind and heart...
...world propaganda competition, he called for the creation of a large organization, headed by the second or third most powerful man in the USA. Summoning the entire resources and abilities of the country, such an organization would put our propaganda efforts on a sufficiently aggressive and intensive level to combat and take the initiative away from the Russians, he said...
...little more than that he was boyish looking, rich, and an efficient operator. If Nixon had never agreed to the debates, Kennedy would not have had the opportunity to prove, before a nationwide audience, that he is Nixon's match in quickness of mind, decisiveness, and resources of combat...
Tender Grass. This was heartening news for the world's neutrals who, in the words of a Burmese diplomat, have sometimes felt like "the tender grass between the feet of two savage buffaloes locked in mortal combat." At this U.N. session the neutralist nations have thrown themselves between the colossi of East and West in the prayerful hope of ending the cold war. Feelings of alarm swept the uncommitted countries at the table thumpings and rocket rattlings of Nikita Khrushchev. They were dismayed by the parliamentary maneuvering of the U.S., which saw no advantage to "renewed" talks between Eisenhower...
...today. Nevertheless assassination is significant as an indicator of what could happen in a lacking a parliamentarian tradition the sense that we described above thermore, there is the possibility the assassination may lead to the of extremism both within leftist and the rightist groups, would resort to violence to combat other, rather than submitting themselves to a patient process of parliamentarianism...