Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last but far, far from least is Williams' opponent. Alexis Irénée du Pont Bayard, 34, a Democrat of aristocratic lineage, is a veteran with a fine combat record, a good speaker, handsome, suave, a Princeton graduate and now Delaware's hard-working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also...
...third anniversary of the Chinese "People's Republic." By an unfortunate coincidence, the camp commander was ill with heart trouble, and a new man, an infantry colonel named Richard D. Boerem, had replaced him. By a further unlucky coincidence, a new battalion of U.S. troops, fresh from combat, had replaced the old outfit of well-drilled guards. For some reason, Colonel Boerem refused to allow the prisoners to celebrate the big day in any manner...
...with the 40th Infantry Division, and he began to joke about being shipped to Korea, much as he had joked about being drafted. But in January 1952, when his division was sent to Korea, Reed realized that he was in for something more than a newspaper assignment. As a combat correspondent, he not only quickly found himself under fire, but for a month got cut off entirely from the Post. The censors, who had no precedent to go by, stopped his mailed columns, and the Army took a dim view of a soldier's holding an outside...
Busy with all the varied chores that fall on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Omar Bradley paused long enough to list, in order of toughness, the most arduous jobs of his career: i) official dinners, 2) press conferences, 3) Pentagon duty, 4) combat...
...next great, unexplored territory: the influence of psychological factors on surgical patients, e.g., what are the differences in response between patients operated on after long illnesses and those who have suffered sudden injury? Wha difference does it make if a soldier is wounded as soon as he goes into combat, or after long months of action and exhaustion...