Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan," which will permit them to spend six months in intensive training and the other 5 1/2 years in the ready reserve. This choice was formerly open only to 17-18 1/2 year olds. Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker said that the changes came as "new measures to improve combat readiness of the Army reserve components...
...produce artificial snow and frost. Brilliant pioneer work in the field was done by Olaus Magnus in 1550, by Descartes in 1635, by Robert Hooke in 1665. "Snow Crystals" absorbed us, but we set it aside in time, realizing Nakaya could or would not tell us how to combat the stuff. Other pamphlets and books yielded nothing helpful, until we ran onto "Report on the Problem of Snow Removal in the City of Rochester, N.Y., 1917." "Continuous snow fighting will require the systematic and constant use of the sewers on the main streets." There it was. One sometimes knows instinctively...
...Moreover, we must especially combat the notion that the U.N. is in some mysterious way a thing apart and different from nations which compose it, on which everyone proceeds to rely. This fallacy is of course associated with the idea that it is like an ordinary government. It is a dangerous fallacy because it obscures the need for active leadership within the United Nations...
Death March. Draftee Sidney Stewart was fresh from the States and stationed in Manila when the Japs started bombing the Philippines. So civilian-minded were his fellow soldiers that they mustered for departure to the front lines in oxfords rather than combat boots. So garrison-minded were their commanders that they issued orders while the bombs were falling that ties would not be worn and officers no longer saluted. Author Stewart catches the quickening tempo of panic. As he and a buddy ordered a drink at the posh Manila Hotel bar, they heard a girl with a brittle laugh telling...
...recovery of the dead. With a certain Byronesque recklessness, Russ volunteered for them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel is peculiarly fascinating for its creation of a new war generation in print, a kind of fighting man who could go into combat spouting bop talk, read the plays of Sophocles between barrages, and sniff heroin for kicks when away from the MLR (Main Line of Resistance...