Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Sept. 15 issue, reports: "Foot soldiers took a hard look at Congress' decision (to provide additional pay of $45 a month for combat duty) and groaned." The report states that the Pentagon estimate of the cost of the paper work involved in making payments retroactive to the start of the Korean war alone would be more than...
...matter of fact, the paper work involved in making these back payments is estimated at approximately $300,000. The figure of $250,000,000 is the approximate total estimated cost of combat pay for all services from the beginning of the Korean war to July...
...statement came on the heels of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon's television broadcast Monday night, in which he accused Stevenson of being unfit to combat the Communist menace, because he "testified voluntarily" that Hiss' reputation was good...
...Korea columns carried the authentic flavor of the combat infantryman's lonely world of fear and waiting: "Aside from the patrols and the small attacks, it's a constant vigil . . . Time drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time...
...Call Me Son." After four months covering front-line units, Reed, now a sergeant, was transferred to a rear echelon supervising Army combat correspondents. In August, with his two-year term of duty up, he was shipped to the U.S. From San Francisco, he phoned City Editor Johnston. "Well, son, how the hell are you?" asked Johnston. "Listen," said cocky, battle-tested Reporter Reed, "don't call...