Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military had a number of compelling arguments to justify its hesitancy. Communist rockets landed on Saigon last week for the first time in more than a month. Senior U.S. officials an nounced that, far from pulling back, the Communists were massing for a drive on Saigon. Seventy combat battalions, including eight artillery battalions, were reported within 50 miles of the capital. To the north, 25 to 30 Communist battalions were on the prowl in the DMZ and the two northernmost provinces of South Viet...
Illnesses sapped the Crimson's strength for Saturday's game. Jaime Vargas, Richie Hardy, Scott Robertson, and Pete Bogovich all played with minor ailments, and the team never mustered enough consistency or drive to combat the hustling Quakers...
...fires, riot police assembled in the darkness down the tracks and charged. They were met but not stopped by a shower of rocks. The sound of staves flailing against police shields and batons banging on plastic helmets echoed through the train shed. Bodies rolled in hand-to-hand combat. The battered and bleeding were carted off by rescue squads of both sides...
Constitutional Government. Oklahoma also proposes to combat the "loneliness, frustration and lack of meaningful participation" that pervades many campuses by splitting its big campus (current enrollment: 15,500) into small congenial groups. Freshmen, who need more counseling and personal attention, would live in housing units holding 50 students, upperclassmen in groups of about 250. The housing units would largely shape and enforce their own social regulations. A central student congress would have almost a free hand to gov ern student activities and suggest changes in any university-wide policy. The power relationship between the student congress, the faculty senate...
...early across South Viet Nam. U.S. command posts received coded radio instructions while most troops were still asleep, promptly ordered all personnel to muster for an alert. Base commanders dismissed Vietnamese civilian employees for the day and sealed off installations to ail outsiders. "We needed a period of limited combat activity," said Colonel Melvin E. Richmond, the man who oversaw the mission. "Operational requirements dictated the timing...