Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 30, 1955 could not have been reached anyway, said Wilson. The new goal of 120 wings could be reached, and with the right kind of planes. It would mean a 30% increase in the Air Force's present numerical strength and "much more" than that in combat effectiveness. While those wings were building, the Defense Department would be examining every detail to determine where the program should go from there...
Secondly, the implication that Mr. Hall represented the evil forces of professionalism and Mr. Griswold the pure forces of amateurism and that the two were locked in mortal combat far overstates the case. With at least one aspect of the problem, it is highly likely that the two were in agreement. Yale's scholarship program is at present so "pure", athletically speaking, that it has reached the logical extreme of absurdity. A scholarship holder at Yale today must maintain grades in the top two-thirds of his class in order to participate in athletics. This means he must have...
Romulo had less than a week before the convention in which to combat Quirino's political skill, his control of the party machinery and of governmental patronage. The odds were heavy against him. Should he manage to beat the islands' slickest politician for the nomination, his opponent in the November election would be the popular Huk-slayer, Ramon Magsaysay. But was Carlos Romulo downhearted? True to form, he beamed a toothy smile for photographers, uttered a headline: "I will not retreat...
...clean modernism and the low bow to Paris' past. Wrote Critic Andre Siegfried in Le Figaro: "That which thinking Parisians demand is that their city, without refusing to be of its own century, not renounce [its right to] remain Paris. Delicate problem. Delicate reconciliation." Echoed the left-wing Combat: "Very seductive . . . They have succeeded perfectly...
...week's end showed. Nor was it yet known who-in or out of the government -set off the bombs in mid-April which inspired the burning by Peronistas of the famed old Jockey Club (TIME, April 27). Said the President: "Other terrorists can always rise. I will combat them with all my force. My job is being a general, and therefore, to fight, and my only desire is to die with my boots...