Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excessive drains upon whole blood reserves for use in combatting polio, and lowered contributions caused by cessation of the Korean fighting caused a state of emergency earlier this year. Reserves have been slowly built up, but are far short of a minimum safe level able to combat some national emergency...
...Howard, favorite haunt of eight generations of College students, may seen be closed by order of the police. District Attorney Garret H. Byrne said last night he would move to close both the Howard and the Casino "to help combat juvenile delinquency...
...same outfit. Politically, they are a mixed bag of Communists, Gaullists, Petainists and what not; some of them hate each other more than they hate the enemy. But in spite of their petty feuds and cynicism, most of them fight well. Author Nimier can write crackling scenes of ground combat, and he uses combat to expose the personalities of his men, not to show off his qualifications as a war novelist. But whatever they are, cowards or brave men, Nimier's hussars live on the page, right up to the bullet that gets them...
...combat wing goal...
...Hungary at last, he joined the Magyars and executed his most famous exploit after accepting a challenge of the Turkish commander to single combat. At the first charge, Smith's lance, he says, "passed the Turke throw the sight of his Beaver, face, head and all, that he fell dead to the ground." Whereupon Smith cut off the fellow's head and presented it to the Hungarian commander, "who kindly accepted it." Smith says he made the same disposition of two other Turks who sallied out to avenge their chief, and in consequence got a coat of arms...