Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which recently dug up Navy records to prove that McCarthy was not injured in combat during World War II as he has claimed. Said the Journal: "He was not wounded in action, nor did he suffer a burned and broken foot in an airplane accident on June 22, 1943, as he has said. Instead he was hurt in a hilarious 'shellback' initiation on that date. It occurred when a Navy transport en route to combat areas but without a single dangerous alert during its entire voyage was the scene of the riotous gaiety traditional to crossing the equator...
Submarine!, by Edward L. Beach. The dramatic underside of the Pacific War, as told by a combat submariner (TIME, June...
...Marthe, but observed that Mme. Richard had nonetheless laid herself "open to criticism by the complacency with which in her memoirs she had narrated her affair with Von Krohn." Parisians seemed to take a mischievous delight in the court's comments. At last, cracked the newspaper Combat, "Marthe Richard's patriotic virtue has received its statistical evaluation...
...weekly newsletter dedicated to digging up "facts to combat Communism," Counterattack was started in 1947 by three ex-FBI men. Of the three, Ted C. Kirkpatrick, the newsletter's impressive spokesman, quickly became known as "Mr. Counterattack." Though Counterattack's circulation, at $24 a year, never grew beyond 7,500, Kirkpatrick's name and the newsletter's influence stretched far beyond the small circle of readers. When Counterattack published Red Channels, a report on Communist influence on radio and TV (TIME, Sept. n, 1950), Kirkpatrick often spoke defending it from the charge that it was smearing...
Submarine!, by Edward L. Beach. The dramatic underside of the Pacific War, as told by a combat submariner (TIME, June...