Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commander leaned against the tread of his bulky Patton and read an order to his men: "During the remainder of the armistice negotiations, every effort will be made to avoid casualties and to demonstrate our willingness to honor a cease-fire." The lieutenant went on with specifications: no more combat patrols, artillery to be used only for counterbattery fire, the infantry to fight only to repel an attack. When he had finished, a sergeant asked: "What does this mean, lieutenant?" Answered the officer: "It means just what it says. And it means that from now on every round of ammo...
Archeologist, British intelligence officer, combat-wise leader of Arab guerrillas during World War I, brilliant theoretician of war, master of English prose-all these, and more, was T. E. Lawrence...
Perhaps, instead, the University wished to honor them because they were victims of a worthless and terrible scourge called war. Even if this purpose justified a memorial, a gift of money to some organization or organizations specifically set up to combat this scourge would have been more appropriate...
...school of thought not completely in accord with their feelings and doctrine . . . Our common enemy is not Russia, Poland, or Communist China, but the things they stand for. They believe, and as sincerely as we believe the opposite, that power is right. Any means that we can use . . . to combat this incipient evil, are the means that we should use, including the appointment of a courier to Rome...
...infantryman's own grimly terse definition, morale in combat is whether you fight good or not, when the man (i.e., the C.O.) tells you to. All along the front the U.N.'s Joes were pushing ahead of a hypothetical line, afoot and in tanks and aircraft, to fight the enemy because the man had told them to. The chaplain of one U.S. outfit in the west central sector snorted at a question about morale...