Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maintain the status quo and go on hoping for an armistice. This would leave 30% of U.S. Army combat strength tied up in defending a 145-mile front across Korea's middle, would allow the enemy to build up his reserves without having to expend them any faster than he sees fit, and capable of launching an attack at will...
Public Mission: Barred from World War I combat duty (poor eyesight, damaged by an overdose of quinine after contracting malaria while on business in British Guiana), the up & coming lawyer wangled a captaincy in Army Intelligence. In 1919, he went to the Versailles Peace Conference as a reparations commissioner, was shocked when Woodrow Wilson's ideals foundered (as he says) "under the pressure of people who wanted to be vindictive." Never thereafter losing sight of the fundamental need for Christian tolerance and justice in international relations, Dulles in the '305 became the Presbyterians' No. 1 layman...
...seventh week. U.S. corps officers and liaison men who had seen it were sick and sad at heart. Said an A.P. dispatch: "Some [U.S. officers] have wept as pitiful remnants of full companies dragged their way back down the shell-blasted slopes of Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. Combat rifle companies are sprinkled heavily now with green replacements...
...naval aviators examined in 1940, a follow-up twelve years later showed that 192 died in combat or air accidents; only seven died of disease (far less than the normal rate). But out of 680 recently examined, 157 were dangerously overweight and 87 had diseases of the heart or arteries...
Egan, who was a basketball player at the College in the early '20's, asked for more scholarship rewards to athletes and a system of providing good jobs to help defray expenses and combat the "salaries" offered by other colleges...