Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people voted their prejudices, but more people voted something else." White, more assertive as a victor than as a campaigner, declared: "No man or woman is going to tear this city apart with hate or bigotry or false promises." Mrs. Hicks, more gracious in defeat than in combat, appeared with White on election night to congratulate him and wish him well...
Stokes began to match Taft detail for detail. He promised to combat the crime rate (up 14% last year) by increasing the police patrol-car force one-third, expand the airport with already available fill, eliminate a particular traffic bottleneck on Baltic Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs a 20-year commuter 100 days off his life. He announced plans for an inaugural ball to raise money for clothing for children of relief families. Even with a skillful advertising campaign, a large and capable biracial campaign staff and a regiment of 2,000 door knockers, Stokes...
...resplendent display watched by Saigonese who lined the streets around Unity Square. First came a crack Vietnamese drill team, and overhead a flyby of jets, transports and helicopters. Then a combined honor guard of Thais, South Koreans, Nationalist Chinese, Filipinos, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans marched past, followed by combat troops and a 56-piece Korean army band. Finally the heavy equipment rolled out, from clanking M41 tanks to giant earth movers...
...Francis S. Gabreski, 48, "the luckier you've got to be." By that measure, the retiring commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at New York's Suffolk County Air Force Base is the luckiest man in the air. Though it has been 15 years since his last combat mission, the Colonel is still the nation's top-ranked living combat ace, with 371 kills to his credit from World War II and Korea. Gabreski is leaving the Air Force for a job as a p.r. executive for Grumman Aircraft. Part of his reason is that...
...fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a climax, the Commodore's steaming into Edo Bay and dramatically opening Japan to the West...