Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams, yanked out of baseball for 17 months when the Marine Corps sent him off to fly combat missions in Korea in 1952, sounded a wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams...
...shape their characters. This time there was too much stacked against him. Between the overwhelming Chinese, the character flaws of his men and his own protectiveness, the patrol ended in a disaster in which heroism and simple humanity were underscored during a brief stretch of nightmarish combat...
...love that a soldier has for his weapon; he also knows, as many writers do not, that men can get to love an outfit and even war itself for the loyalties they command. Stanley's last act may seem too sensitive and sacrificial for so experienced a combat hand, but the real army does have its Stanleys. Your Own Beloved Sons is a modest book written toward modest goals, but with it Author Anderson has won his writer's battle the first time...
Mollet took to the air, appealing to the rebels: "If you lay down your arms, free and loyal elections will be organized within three months after the end of the combat and acts of violence." But "first, the guns must be silenced." He promised to discuss a new deal with the elected leaders that would respect "the originality and rights of the Moslem community," but he reiterated the familiar refrain: "Algeria is and will remain indissolubly linked to France." If these offers were rejected, "France would then be constrained to mobilize all her resources to insure by every means...
...peace and half measures to prepare for war!" cried Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber in L'Express (the newspaper of the Mendès-France camp, which this week gave up its costly attempt to become a Parisian daily and went back to being a weekly). The left-wing Combat warned: "It is the Indo-China solution. The shameful war by petits paquets [little packets], the blood spilled uselessly, with the prospect of an increasing extension of hostilities, capped by a new Dienbienphu." The government itself was showing telltale signs of dissension, and Mendès-France was talking...