Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the wishes of many of his top advisers, Wilson decided that such manpower slashes would not endanger the national security and reduce effective combat strength...
...label in the thirties--a label fixed even firmer in the last three years by those who hunt throughout history to make headlines. But the University has been unaware of the sensitivity of the public on this issue, and too inclined to deplore it rather than combat...
...will be difficult to combat these arguments, irrational as they are. In the public eye, stimulated by McCarthy's pyrotechnics, anyone who uses the Fifth Amendment is a full-fledged spy. Better public relations than any one University might accomplish would be needed to crase this view. Only be actually firing all Fifth Amendment professors, and making public massacres for the press would the University completely succeed, but no opinion, no matter how potentially harmful to our interests, justifies setting aside the principles of tenure. Therefore, while an enlarged public relations program will not solve all the problems created...
...Europe, as a corporal, he literally ran the education and information services for a combat general who was boss on paper. High level conferences saw generals and admirals ducking out of closed rooms to get advice from the thin, be-spectacled enlisted man who waited in the hall because protocol would not allow him inside...
Dean plunged into the combat training with his customary vigor. He had a theory that by the time the 44th reached the Siegfried Line most of the enlisted men who knew how to operate flamethrowers would probably be dead. He organized a flamethrower school for junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean...