Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scouting report shows the Indians have a weak by-line so we plan to split their infinitive and block their metaphors," tongued the old master, hers do combat...
From Princeton Came news of the campaign to combat unsubstantiated public defamation" of scientists named in loyalty or security investigations. The federation said that it would seek "fair and full" hearings for these scientists criticised by government agencies and congressional committees...
...guerrillas recoup so quickly was explained last week by a Greek officer, who told this story of a guerrilla chieftain named Ypsilantis: "Last year 400 of Ypsilantis' band of 720 surrendered to me. By combat we reduced the remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent...
Like a man hopefully shooting arrows into the empty air, the wartime "Voice of America" beamed 2,500 broadcasts a week into the heart of Europe and Asia. Nobody knew, or could prove, whether it did any good or not. But the idea was to encourage resistance forces and combat Axis propaganda. When the war ended, the "Voice" died to a whisper. It was cut down by a budget-minded Congress to a scanty $8,000,000 a year (less than the U.S. spent last year on its wildlife care), and most of its overseas programs were farmed...
Last week the Voice, finally on its own, was concentrating on a new job very much like its wartime duty: trying to encourage anti-Communist resistance forces and combat Soviet propaganda. Getting started again had taken time. Because of strict loyalty checks, the Voice had spent six months clearing its new employees with the FBI. Because it cannot buy service from the Associated Press or the United Press, the Voice sometimes gets scooped by foreign newspapers as well as by the Soviet radio...