Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranking pointer was Lieut. General George H. Decker, the Army's comptroller. On Sept. 27, 1950, said Decker, George Catlett Marshall (who had been Secretary of Defense for just six days) issued an order: "In preparation of budget estimates ... it will be assumed that . . . combat operations in Korea will be concluded by 30 June, 1951 . . ." From then on, the Defense Department always made its plans-for ammunition and everything else-on the assumption that the Korean war would be over within the fiscal year. During his term of office, Lovett reissued the Marshall directive with appropriate changes of dates...
...students' doubts. Throughout the book, he draws on his personal faith to preach beyond the limits of the questions raised. He bases most of his arguments for Christian doctrine on three familiar pillars: "X is not enough," free will, and the Scriptures. The first he uses largely to combat over weening faith in science. Invoking by implication the Prime Mover, he argues that science can not penetrate the world of the spirit...
...story is symbolic of the potential strength of our country. If every such fortunate American followed Miss Russell's example and shared their blessings with another American who had suffered lack of opportunities because of color or creed, we would soon have a powerful weapon with which to combat the propaganda our enemies now peddle...
...last week, Captain Fischer appeared particularly eager to get into combat. He tried to fly on a morning mission, but had to wait until afternoon. As he trotted out to his F-86 Sabre jet, he said to his buddies: "Let's go get them-or get got." Up near the Yalu, he tangled with a MIG, and lost. His wingman heard Fischer say, "Get out, get the hell out of the area." Then his radio was silent...
...German field marshal who directed the 1940 aerial blitz of London; in Munich. Massive, monocled and elaborately uniformed, Sperrle flashed almost as many medals as his boss Reich Marshal Hermann Goring. He helped organize the Luftwaffe, probably did as much as any man in setting the pattern for aerial combat in World War II. Judged not guilty of war crimes and "non-concerned" about Naziism, he lived out his days quietly in Landsberg...