Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge's attitude, like the nation's, was a casualty of World War II. He saw action in North Africa and Italy as an Armored Force officer, wound up the war as a combat liaison officer (lieutenant colonel) between U.S. and French forces in Germany. He came back with six battle stars, the Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star for performance under enemy fire in Italy, and a permanently changed mind about the U.S.'s role in the world. Back in the Senate after the war, he supported reciprocal trade, foreign...
...early obsolescence": the moment effective Russian "surface-to-air missiles carrying nuclear warheads are on the site in numbers." If such deterrent protection is to be retained, argues Gavin, "we will have to step up missile production so as to have, at an early date, an arsenal of combat-ready, mobile, intermediate and long-range missile systems...
...plan. They were ready, if called upon, to roll up the Basta, a Moslem area of Beirut held by Nasserite rebels, sealed by deep tank traps, banked with sandbags, defended by carefully sited automatic weapons. But there were immediate problems in the olive grove. Inevitably, the trucks and heavy combat vehicles of the 187th were barging into some of the olive trees causing damage, and there was the question of compensation for the Lebanese olive growers. Mutually satisfactory method of compensation : count the olives on each ruined tree; figure out the estimated life of the tree; pay out the estimated...
...seven months after Pearl Harbor, the Tigers racked up 284 kills and 300 probables, in exchange for twelve pilots, two crew chiefs and 21 planes. He rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store...
...phone calls were unmonitored. and most newsmen dodged the censor by phoning their stories at the top of their lungs to colleagues in London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt. Said the A.P.'s Relman Morin, a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner and topflight combat correspondent of World War II and Korea: "If any A.P. man is invalided out of Beirut, it likely will be because he lost his voice...