Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems of the individual footslogger. In the evacuation of Hungnam, Lowe came out in the last wave. There he saw a soldier accidentally shot in the foot by a careless machine gunner. Aware that the G.I. might be accused of shooting himself in the classic method of avoiding combat, General Lowe bustled up. "My name is Frank Lowe," said he. "If anybody ever questions your story of how you got shot, tell him General Lowe saw it and go ask him what happened...
Paid in Full. Hanley, who was lying in a hospital bed recovering from combat fatigue, talked with impressive sincerity. His debt, according to the investigators' subsequent report, dated back to the death of his father in 1933: the elder Hanley had died the owner of $75,000 worth of stock in a bank which had failed in Muscatine, Iowa. Joe was not legally responsible, but he had shouldered his father's $150,000 double-liability obligation, and he had spent years of scraping and pinching in an attempt to make it good...
Chester J. Salkin '51, president of the Democratic Club, said he thought most of our servicemen in active combat would rather "stay out there and fight, rather than subscribe to an impossible policy of isolationism...
...peak. Military electronic production is small; quadrupling it will be an easy job for the enormous new electronics industry. (In 1950, Motorola's $175 million output of radio and television sets alone was about equal to the output of the entire radio industry in 1940.) Combat vehicle production is also negligible. At year's end the U.S. had only 1,000 tanks on order, and was producing only a small number of combat vehicles. Despite all the Washington talk of stratospheric increases in arms production, the cold figures on orders and published estimates hardly bore them...
...last time that Mencken spoke well of his native land. Years later he admitted that "I wouldn't swap an American bathroom for the Acropolis." But these were passing sentimentalities from the man whose avowed program was "to combat, chiefly by ridicule, American piety, stupidity, tin-pot morality, cheap chauvinism in all their forms...