Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan winters have made this year a must for the thousands of people who live on the wintertime ski trade and they're making an all-out effort to combat the weather device with added lure for the would-be adventurer...
...hard, shocking fact they faced was that the U.S. was out of combat-ready reserve strength. Only the 82nd Airborne Division was still left at home and at the ready. Behind them in the Army's production line was an assortment of National Guard (four divisions and spare parts) and marine outfits still in training, and the newly formed Regular 4th Division which would not be set until late spring. Equally as serious, U.S. industry had not been ordered into even a creeping mobilization. "We are moving," Mobilization Overseer Stuart Symington testified last week before the Senate Banking Committee...
...witnesses had not been permitted to leave their foxholes to testify. His eight judges, all white, had disregarded the report from three Army doctors, one a psychiatrist, who found him suffering from acute battle fatigue and "unable to adhere to the right" (Gilbert had collapsed in Italy as a combat officer during World War II, had been reassigned to rear-area duty). Most important, Gilbert felt that he had been tried illegally under Article of War No. 75, which provides for the death penalty only "if committed in time of war." Congress, by joint resolution in 1947, officially ended World...
...through France. From Twelve O'Clock High it borrows the problem of the commander who cracks under the strain of identifying himself with his men; from Battleground, the familiar roster of civilian-soldier types; from Sands of Iwo Jima, the technique of intercutting its scenes liberally with real combat footage and battering its sound track with thunderous explosions...
There is still no word from the U.S. 17th Regimental Combat Team, ordered, to withdraw from positions on the Manchurian border several days...