Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clubs like the HYRC and HLU, strongholds of political interest, cannot muster enough internal disagreement for really fruitful debate. And they view debates with each other something like troops regard combat with fixed bayonets. The majority of students avoid all these clubs, sometimes because they do not want to be themselves to national organizations and sometimes because they abhor "student politics...
...Marshal Stalin is leaving us other souvenirs . . . His name is linked to the struggle of our troops in Indo-China and Korea. [The Soviet Union] helps in prolonging a terrible war . . . Have our authorities thought of the effect which [lowering the flag] will have on the morale of our combat units...
When James Jackson Jeffries was in his prime, no man in the world could stand against him. His father was a street-corner evangelist, his mother a peaceful Bible-reading woman, but Big Jim was born for combat. At 16, he was working as a boilermaker in East Los Angeles. At 21, he stood 6 ft. 1½ in., weighed 212 Ibs., could high-jump 6 ft. and run 100 yds. in eleven seconds. He could hit like a jackhammer and, in the words of Gentleman Jim Corbett, "couldn't be hurt with an ax." In 1899, when...
...Fleet made his suggestion before the House Armed Services Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, saying that additional time from an extension would "better prepare our boys" to live through combat by giving them a more thorough basis training...
...former Korean field commander stressed that the additional time would "better prepare our boys" to live through combat by giving them a more thorough basic training...