Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formal title: the Citizens Advisory Commission on Manpower Utilization in the Armed Services) recommended "an overall reduction of at least 10% in men, money and matériel . . . in the operations of the Department of Defense." Such a cut, said the commission, "can be achieved . . . without diminishing the required combat effectiveness of our armed forces," and "would mean possible savings of at least 500,000 in civilian and military manpower and $5 billion annually...
Pythagorism, cried the magazine, had reared its transmigrated head in the proletarian writings of Vasily Semenovich Grossman, an engineer-turned-author who spent World War II as a combat correspondent with the Red army, and had moved on to high regard in Communist literary circles. For the Right Cause, Grossman's unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...
...Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugging outfielder, finished his first combat mission as a jet pilot. In a 200-plane strike at a Red supply center near Pyongyang, Williams' Panther jet was struck by ground fire, and started to blaze. With a dead radio, wing flaps and wheels stuck and the airspeed indicator out, he nursed his jet back to the nearest forward air base, where he walked away from a crash landing. Said he: "There was nothing to do but belly...
...different schools attempt to combat "illusory thinking," Neibuhr said. The Christian existentialist approach is based on the relationship between selves, while the "positivist" school focuses on defining the precise relationship between things...
...Correspondent Homer Bigart became the first U.S. newspaperman to visit the camp on Phuquoc. Bigart reported that the refugee Nationalists have been whipped into a tight, well-conditioned force which, in spite of three years of jungle life and inadequate health facilities, could field some 12,000 combat troops on quick notice...