Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influencing the Senate to kill Colonel James Stewart's promotion, Senator Smith has done her country a disservice. Colonel Stewart proved himself to be one of our most able staff officers as well as one of our great combat command pilots...
Strauss had proposed a Defense Ministry lieutenant colonel for promotion. Brigadier General Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand, a 52-year-old member of the clannish former German General Staff, working in the personnel section, objected so strongly in writing to the colonel's lack of combat distinction in World War II that Strauss ordered the general to report to him immediately in full-dress uniform. Müller-Hillebrand obeyed, but when he had waited 30 minutes outside Strauss's office, he stalked out declaring: "This has not happened in my entire military career. If the Minister wants...
Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause up to a third of all common colds...
...tiny walk-up apartment, enrolled at Columbia University (where his father soon became President) to earn his M.A. in English literature. (Thesis: The Soldier as a Character in Elizabethan Drama.) In mid-1952, while his father campaigned for the presidency against Adlai Stevenson, John went off to his first combat in Korea, was assigned to one of Ike's old prewar outfits, the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment. As G-3 (Operations) and later as a 3rd Division Intelligence officer for 14 months, John came under Communist mortar fire, earned his Combat Infantryman's Badge and a Bronze...
...developing an overall battle plan to combat Asian flu, members of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers of the U.S. heard reports advising 1) weekly flu-situation bulletins, to be submitted" by the states to the Public Health Service, 2) integration of disaster and welfare agencies into a master plan, 3 ) establishment of a National Commission on Influenza to deal with future flu epidemics...