Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers under the skin. That it frequently does nothing of the sort gives Novelist Joe David (Stars in My Crown) Brown the chance to mount a kind of two-front war novel in which the rasp of conflicting personalities can be heard above the whine of shells. The psychological combat in Kings Go Forth is sometimes emotionally blurred, though deeply felt, but the scenes of military combat flare across the pages as vividly as tracers stabbing the night...
Courage Is a Sometime Thing. Lieut. Loggins realizes, though, that wartime courage is a sometime thing, and as his outfit gets battle tired and combat weary, he begins to value Harris as a steady professional who gets on with the job in the face of paralyzing mud, disheartening casualties and raking German artillery fire. The two men even first-name each other in rankless camaraderie. Yet something about Harris always rankles in the back of Loggins' mind, something growing out of their backgrounds. Harris has an easy, aristocratic assurance bred on a large Southern cotton plantation; Loggins...
Raise the Dead. Himself a paratrooper and winner of a battlefield commission (and now a TIME correspondent in Britain), Novelist Brown paints combat in its primary colors of blood, mud and terror. He also etches telling vignettes of the lunatic grotesqueries of war, e.g., a paratroop major with 20 ft. of primer cord wrapped around him and 40 lbs. of explosives on him is hit in the chest by a tracer bullet as he stands ready to jump, and reels back into the plane with the primer cord smoldering, but a quick-witted sergeant kicks him out, and he explodes...
...nigger lover," and McGuire undoubtedly stands to benefit from the whispering campaign against Zeidler. With some bitterness the mayor links his opponent to the rumors. Says Zeidler: "The rumor is what made possible any candidacy against me. It is one of those things that is very hard to combat. If my opponent leaves any heritage to Milwaukee, whether he wins or loses, it will be racial tension where none existed before...
...Adds W. M. Turner, a dealer in Selma, Ala.: "The criticism of the whites-and I'm sur prised at some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting its car windows with stickers, reading: "Built in the South by Mid-Southerners." One result: the slogan led to such gutter parodies as: "Built in Africa by Apes...