Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat the famine, Communist Tung outlined some measures. "By the mountain, eat from the mountain. By the river, eat from the river." Tung ordered the refugees put to work rebuilding the dikes of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, promised loans for seed grains, sent soldiers to work in the fields. Government workers and soldiers were exhorted: "Save an Ounce of Rice." Tung claimed that the "head" of the famine had been dealt with, but admitted that the job had been botched in places. Refugees had been permitted to slaughter or sell irreplaceable work animals. "Bureaucracy," said Tung, "is still strong...
Three Torpedoes. Sherman was also a fighter. After Pearl Harbor, he begged for a chance at combat, got command of the Wasp, a small (14,700 tons) carrier that was already outdated by the new Essex-class flattops then abuilding. Under him the Wasp was a taut, efficient and happy ship. The flight plan he worked out for his air group became the pattern through the War for all U.S. carriers...
Sherman never saw combat again. For the rest of the war, he was the major planner in the greatest campaign the U.S. Navy ever fought. As Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Chester Nimitz, Sherman insisted after Tarawa that the tactically unimportant, heavily defended islands of Maloelap and Wotje should be bypassed, and Kwajalein attacked in one long, 250-mile jump. Said Kelly Turner: "Admiral Spruance and I were astounded." But Sherman was right-so right that the Navy and Kelly Turner's amphibious-force troops hopped on to grab Eniwetok. Thus the Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique...
...When the fathers of the early Church advised the young against embracing military careers in Roman legions, they based their advice on necessity of avoiding idolatrous service to the emperor-never on the individual right of avoiding combat against the state's aggressors . .. The Old Testament glorified war enterprises such as that of the Maccabees, while hundreds of soldiers were baptized in Jordan by John the Baptist . . . Neither did Christ warn the good centurion against fighting...
Exercise Sweetbriar was a test to determine whether, in spite of all the known difficulties, men & machines could fight a war in the Arctic. A Canadian combat team was sent north from Whitehorse in the Yukon. An "aggressor force" of U.S. troops from the Alaska Command headed south. Later, a U.S. combat team, brought in from Colorado, went up the highway to reinforce the Canadian defenders. Referees ordered attacks, withdrawals and flanking movements and directed operations of U.S. and Canadian aircraft...