Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxiing aircraft. Yet, one by one, good serviceable runways are being finished. Last week in the vital Central European Tactical Zone (see map), there were three times as many 8,000-ft. runways as there were a year ago. By the end of 1952, 60 big bases will be combat-ready...
...trumpet of partisanship. During the campaign itself they probably even convince a few people, though their main role is to stir the vitals of the already convinced. As such there is nothing wrong with them--indeed, like the election campaigns themselves, they satisfy the animal urge for pure combat which lies behind the veneer of civilization...
Precision & Silence. Two days later in Boston, where Democrats fear the Communist issue may cost them Catholic votes, Stevenson declared that the Republicans had done little to combat Communism either abroad or in the U.S. Said he: "Men who seek to fight [Communism] by indiscriminate accusation of their fellow citizens-by spreading suspicion and smear and slander-are serving no one but the Communists themselves ... In fighting Communism at home, I shall rely on such experienced guardians of our security as J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Bedell Smith of the Central Intelligence Agency. These...
...East ern experts and policy planners (among them John Davies, whose role in Far Eastern policy is still controversial) worked up a new policy paper (NSC-8/2) for the National Security Council. In it, MacArthur's advice was misrepresented: he was quoted as saying that the combat readiness of the South Koreans justified complete U.S. withdrawal, while his warning that the South Koreans could not withstand invasion from the north was ignored...
Concerning your statement that foot soldiers groaned at the prospect of $45 a month combat pay, I put it to you honestly-when in the name of history has a soldier in any army groaned, or complained, at what amounts to a well-deserved raise...