Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat off Viet Nam that really upset the junior officers...
During this controversy, however, McNamara further jeopardized his relations with the military by openly criticizing the manpower efficiency of Westmoreland's command in Vietnam. He forced the U.S. commanders in Vietnam to increase the percentage of troops in the field, while cutting the number needed for non-combat operations...
...appreciate Israel's plight, they argue, reflects an inability to comprehend the Jewish sense of peoplehood and the primordial place that the vision of Israel as the homeland for God's people occupies in the Jewish mind. Instead of concentrating on how the two faiths can jointly combat moral evils in the world, dialogue might better be served by greater stress on the fundamentals of Jewish belief...
Munro was thinking of installing a new offense to combat Migliore and a defense that Harvard has scored against only twice in the last four years. But Wednesday's blizzard cut the Crimsons down to only one effective practice this week and debilitated any plans for change...
Rustin's speech kicked off the weekend program of the New England Conference on the Freedom Budget, a plan to combat poverty with massive federal spending...