Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, the great new speeds, altitudes and precisions of jet flying had given the Air Force a stamp of its own - a skill to rival the technical proficiency of the Navy. For another, the new Air Force was a rich mixture of two generations of flying men: combat-tested elders teamed with youngsters born under the sign of Mach...
...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
Colonel Azan was sent to Harvard by the French Government at the request of President A. Lawrence Lowell just before the United States entered the war. Thrice cited for gallantry in combat, he was an officer of the Legion of Honor and a holder of the Croix de Guerre...
Ceremonies will be held today at Shannon Hall for the presentation of a portrait of Colonel Paul A. J. Azan, French war hero who trained more than 1,200 Harvard students for combat in World...
...step forward is necessary," said Peking's People's Daily, ". . . to combat this spontaneous capitalist trend of the peasants." Peking has long complained that China's peasants are slow to hate their "class enemies," i.e., the surviving landlords who still own an acre or more. Judging by the reports of travelers reaching free Hong Kong and by the hysterical tone of Communist reprimands, masses of peasants are refusing to sell their crops to the government at the fixed low rates prescribed by law. The peasants, squeezed by taxes, "voluntary patriotic contributions," and high living costs, are also...