Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Shall Not Rise." Jake Gaither fans the fire of combat in his players, encourages rivalry among them by dividing them into three separate units dubbed "Blood. Sweat and Tears." The son of a Methodist minister. Gaither is a revivalist orator. "Baby." he cries, striding into a locker room before a game, "you know what's going against us today." The players shout their enthusiastic reply. "We'll have to hit hard," yells Gaither. "We'll have to run hard . . . We must be hungry." Each Gaither pep talk ends with the team chanting an incantation whose origins...
Paynter had previously been advising the Fish and Wildlife Service on ways to combat the dangerous flocking of seagulls around the airport. He had expected to hear that gulls caused the crash, he said, because it was a flock of gulls, not starlings, which had previously proven bothersome at Logan and had prompted the Fish and Wildlife Service's action...
...wallpaper salesman in Buffalo, Spahn was just ripening in the minors when he went into the Army in 1942. A combat engineer, Spahn won a battlefield commission and was wounded by shrapnel in the action to repair the Remagen bridge for the first troops to cross the Rhine. Spahn shrugs off both the wound ("It was only a scratch in the foot'') and the promotion ("I got it only because all our officers were killed...
When Skelton finally turns in, he lies down-usually with two or three of his dogs-on something that suggests a discount house with springs. His 49-square-foot bed has a control panel hooked up with three television sets (plus a portable for emergencies), an air purifier to combat his asthma, a tape recorder, and gadgets that close curtains and regulate the air conditioning. Two secretaries arrive for breakfast, and while Red eats they play a newspaper "Brain Game" with him, firing general information questions at him. If the phone rings, he shudders. He has such a phobia...
...American naval history." Of the fight for the South Pacific, he says: "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion." Sailor-Scholar Morison, who rode eleven ships and won seven battle stars and the Legion of Merit with combat clasp while getting the story, can say with Vergil's Aeneas...