Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate: ¶ Received a report from its Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approving the North Atlantic Treaty. The report stipulated (at the insistence of Georgia's Walter George) that the pact give the U.S. President no new powers to send troops into combat without consent of Congress...
...Chambers and Algeu Hiss had been silhouetted dimly for ten months against smoky fires which smoldered at the foundations of state. The baleful glow did not light them sharply; as they swayed and grappled it was only possible to tell that they were locked in a strange and merciless combat and that one, or both, would inevitably suffer a total and deathlike disgrace...
...characters, each with a varying degree of racial bias. The result is pat and talky, and effect that remains through to the traditionally "happy" ending. It is hard to believe that a lifetime of acute unhappiness, a lifetime of being treated as something of a freak, and a harrowing combat patrol can be completely wiped out of one's consciousness by a couple of narco-sythesis treatments...
...extra cruising cars went on duty yesterday morning as Cambridge police set in motion a special crime prevention squad to combat holdup gangs in the city...
...newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...