Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current issue of the Soviet magazine Science & Life sounded a trumpet call for new zeal in the struggle against religion. "Apart from creating the material conditions necessary to have religion vanish," said Science & Life, "the Communist Party has worked tirelessly to employ skillfully these conditions to combat religious superstition." Not skillfully enough, perhaps; though the magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that...
...three-man alert crews waited, always a few minutes' jeep ride from their aircraft, always together. ("It's like being married to these guys," says one young copilot, "only worse.") As Klaxon horns blared harshly and insistently through the sun-dried air, the combat crews dropped what they were doing and piled into their jeeps. (One coveralled pilot got notice of the alert when the warning light went on over the Catholic chapel altar, where he was at prayer.) Down premarked roadways they headed for their planes, where ground crews were already at work. Methodically they went down...
...second warning system (the Mid-Canada line) of automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground and air combat commands, from Labrador and British Columbia to Florida and Southern California...
...Premier, Felix Gaillard continues to face some disturbing problems. France has been without a government for thirty-six days, during which time pithead coal prices have risen 6.5 per cent, the import tax has risen 20 per cent, and the franc's value has fallen 20 per cent. To combat the falling franc and the rising Algerian, fresh and dynamic leadership is needed. If the following proposals to M. Gaillard are not dynamic, they are, at least, original...
...Tokyo's Taizo Ishizaka, president of the Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations and president of the Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., suggested an international agency to exchange technical know-how and services, thus promote industrial development and combat anti-foreignism in backward countries. In much of the world, said Ishizaka, there is still a blind prejudice that "capitalism leads to imperialism" and alien rule...