Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon belabored the Administration for appropriating "over $100,000,000,000 for the armed forces since World War II and yet only one and one half divisions ready for combat when the Korean War broke...
Cohn and a group of doctors told the National Academy of Sciences that this medicine, which is derived from the human blood, may be used to combat shock and treat burns. The scientists expect it will replace both plasma and serum albumin, an anti-shock medicine, in use against war wounds or atom-bomb casualties...
Hall's immediate plans are to increase the national circulation of "Countertide," and by publishing the facts about racist and anti-communist front organizations to give more people a chance to combat them...
Cole asked a few more questions before he decided that this was a genuine case of combat exhaustion. He told the sergeant: "I'm going to send you back to another hospital. I don't think you should be back on the line. We'll give you another job to do. No one's going to look down on you for it. You've had too much. It could happen to anybody...
Cole does very little in the way of psychiatric treatment: he is too close to the front for that, and the simplest cases of combat exhaustion do not need it. They get rest, then go back...