Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chile's President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla seemed in an unusually expansive mood. Wrapped in a borrowed admiral's cape, he watched his small but well-trained fleet in combat maneuvers at Quintero naval air base. Later he announced: "We just bought two cruisers . . . Thanks to the good will and the facilities granted by the U.S. Government, we will soon add . . . the U.S.S. Brooklyn and Savannah* to our fleet...
...Yale Administration listened, and so did Edward S. Harkness the Standard Oil millionaire. Harkness, who had financed Harvard's House system mainly to show Yale how to combat impersonalism in a large university, was even more generous with his alma mater. Yale was able to build 10 Colleges as against the seven Houses that Harvard had put up along the Charles for a larger student body...
...week's end the reality of jet combat -the fastest kind of fighting known to man-was becoming routine along the Korean-Manchurian border. At least five more Red jets were destroyed by U.S. jet fighters...
...Jungle Road to Tokyo, by,Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME...
...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...