Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America in 1975, Nhan Truong decided to start the program last summer, while working with Philips Brooks House's Chinatown Adventure Program. Nhan Truong children from Chinatown housing projects in the morning and in the afternoon took them on field trips to expose them to the world beyond the "Combat Zone...
...last year, achieved his greatest success with his oral biographies of Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern, and outcommand almost anybody you'd care to name, including...
...Humphrey for so long had served the hated warmaker Lyndon Johnson. Nixon, who had been nominated in Miami three weeks before Chicago, somehow did not figure in the demonology just then. He was off the radar. Miami was sedate compared with Chicago, but almost anything this side of a combat zone would have been. Nixon surprised the convention by choosing a vice-presidential running mate named Spiro Agnew, the Governor of Maryland who had drawn some attention in the spring by his tough dealing with rioters after the King assassination...
...Jackson's heroic posturing, most notably his hotly disputed boast that he cradled Martin Luther King in his arms after the assassination. Robertson has also been shown to have augmented his resume in a less than truthful fashion: his suspect claims range from assertions that he was a "combat" officer in Korea to exaggerated educational and business credentials...
...what suits them is, as far as the authorities are concerned, off limits. There are traffic reports of water buffalo jackknifed on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. There are appearances by a jungle fashion consultant, a little light in his combat boots, who advises the troops to eschew camouflage on the ground that if you are in a clash with the enemy, it is chic to clash with your surroundings too. Then there is the profoundly unintelligent intelligence officer who discerns no marijuana problem in Viet Nam because everyone has plenty of the stuff...