Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have entered into the arsenals of the great powers, and they have a tremendous effect. To say that they would have no effect on 'the composition of military forces would be shutting your eyes to all history. But, at present, there exists no plan for reduction of any combat forces of the United States anywhere. ¶On the prospects of a meeting with Malenkov: We have many examples of different meetings in the past being used for propaganda purposes. He would do anything in the world that he thought would advance peace, but it is perfectly hopeless to call...
Last spring the CRIMSON accused me editorially of a "casual blending of free enterprise, morality, religion, and salvation" in suggesting a "Free Enterprise Fund" to combat the Communistic influences at Harvard. They declined to publish my answer on the lame grounds that it would take up too much space. The real reason, I suspect, is that they feared...
...book, Souls in Torment, his girls are still playing their old tricks-but they are doing so for the last time. They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will be only a word-to be used every time a school window is broken, a classroom wrecked or an underclassman over...
...million a year to the company's operating cost ... at a time when the nation's defense budget has been drastically cut. This is equivalent to the loss of 475 F-86 Sabre jets, more than eight times the number of Sabre jets shot down [in aerial combat] by the Communists during the Korean...
...Trumpet, is a fictionalized report of his G.I. experience between D-day and the end of the war. It focuses on Danforth Granham, a G.I. cameraman in a documentary film unit, later an infantry photographer, as he shoots his way across France and into Germany, his shutter open to combat and corpses, his arms briefly closed around the Red Cross girl of his dreams. The result of all this picture-taking is a series of dramatically unrelated clichés which add up to a minor war document disguised as a novel. What Leicester Hemingway chiefly demonstrates is the importance...