Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event of atomic war, what would be the reaction of irradiated combat personnel...
...first stage that interests Lindsley, as psychologist, because of its obvious strategic importance with respect to increased anxiety and fear of combat personnel following even sub-lethal doses of radiation. "The results obtained from these experiments with dogs are based on laws of animal behavior learned through the study of pigeons," says Lindsley. "Most probably a human's reaction to irradiation would be the same as a dog's--for it's a bigger phylogenetic jump from the pigeon to the dog than from the dog to man." Also significant is the fact that many people irradiated in the treatment...
...quickly scotched a report that he would leave the cutting of U.S. combat strength to Secretary Wilson. The size of our armed forces, he said, would conform with what he always goes back to-George Washington's old precept of a reasonable posture of military defense. The responsibility for cutting would not be one that he would delegate...
Father O'Connor has a good reporter's sharp eye for detail, lets the religious notes sound where they belong. In the early months of the Korean war, riding north to cover a combat jump with a Flying Boxcar of paratroopers, he heard confessions on the way to the target, blessed the men as they went out the door. "With marvelous precision," Father O'Connor ended his story, "our flight lands, each wide-winged plane seconds apart from the next on a sunny, peaceful field. We are hundreds of miles from where we saw men drop...
...educators cited Thomas Jefferson's statement that "if there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or change its republican form, lot them stand undisturbed, as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat...