Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation here has improved . . . to the extent that we feel it our duty to put TIME readers' minds at ease by informing them we're all through crying, and if ever needed as a combat division we'll go and add a few more battle streamers to our already heavily burdened regimental and battalion standards...
...looks through This Is War!, with its vivid combat scenes and unforgettable warrior faces, can doubt that Duncan has succeeded magnificently. In these 150 pages of pictures, the bruising war of the foot soldier is fixed in a succession of moments that make captions superfluous (Duncan uses none). To capture such moments, Duncan had to become, in effect, a front-line soldier. Only in that way could he get close enough to photograph the grenade in flight, the finger squeezing the trigger, the first instant of surprised shock of the wounded...
...There is an aristocracy to which the sons of Harvard have belonged, and let us hope will ever aspire to belong--the aristocracy which excels in many sports, carries off honors and prizes in learned professions and bears itself with distinction in all fields of intellectual labor and combat . . ." PRESIDENT ELIOT, INAUGURAL ADDRESS...
Pilots in Korea have the same kind of mental approach to combat as a gun-toting infantryman, said Meyer. "It's simply a matter of killing him because he is trying to kill you and killing him because he has killed your buddy...
...Soldier's Story is basically like many others already told by U.S. generals in World War II: long peacetime years of low rank, low pay and routine chores; then in middle life, such command opportunities as they had never dreamed of. Many fine peacetime officers failed in combat (no one fired them more ruthlessly and properly, for cause, than Bradley), and perhaps no one would have been surprised if Bradley had failed too. After 32 years in the Army, he was past 50 when he heard his first battlefield shot, a methodical professional with none of Eisenhower...