Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milling in the red dust of Nairobi airport in Kenya, alternately looked at the skies and smoothed lapels. Titled whites exchanged greetings with African chiefs stiff in lounge suits, starched collars and shiny black shoes. Young Masai warriors, their headdresses bristling with the manes of lions speared in single combat, impatiently jangled the tiny metal rattles girding their ankles. An R.A.F. corporal dropped to his knees and gave the red-carpeted steps of a nearby dais the final whisk-brooming...
...atom bomb were to hit Boston tomorrow, it would find the University prepared to feed, house and bed displaced persons. If the bomb happened to strike in Cambridge, it would find the University totally unprepared to combat its effects...
College men desiring to appear democratic and self-sacrificing usually support UMT because it applies equality to everybody. But UMT is not combat, and so long as there is war in Korea, some men will be dying while others are enjoying college. The remedy is to end selective service deferments for college students...
...Peace-time army VD rates were 37 times that of similar age-groups in college. Veterans Administration disability payments do not apply to ex-trainees. The casualty rate in modern military training is 2%; 16,000 casualties out of 800,000 UMT draftees, who may never be needed in combat...
Then several things happened which made the outcome certain. Center Al Schutts came back into the game for the Gymnasts, and a minute later Dick Lionette of the Crimson fouled out. Since Ed Blodnick had fouled out previously, this left the Crimson without a big man to combat the husky but agile Schutts...