Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling [that] any area trying to combat integration would be making trouble for itself and worsening race relations," says Call. "We went into it blind. We had no way of knowing what public reaction would be. We were pleasantly surprised at the almost complete lack of opposition...
...Iron Dart"), slated for squadron service soon. Powered by a J-57, the rocket-carrying F-102 weighs as much as a DC-3 transport (25,200 lbs.), can climb to 40,000 ft. in less than five minutes, hit something like 1,000 m.p.h. in level flight at combat altitude...
...extraordinary speed and combat capabilities that U.S. planemakers have built into the new century fighters were well summed up by Lockheed's Chief Engineer C. L. Johnson: "Give us a 16-in. shell up there, and we'll outrace it-or shoot it down. Not at all impossible. After all, the velocity of this shell at 35,000 ft. is 300 ft. per second. We can sure go that fast...
Gerschenkron, who is also active in the Russian Research Committee, considered the new doctrine "an innovation," but emphasized that the Soviets are presently interested in relaxing tensions to combat spiralling inflationary tendencies within the USSR. He added that Marxism was today merely an empty shell within which the Russians develop opportunist policies, and that Khrushchev had definitely refuted Marxist doctrines in several portions of his speech...
...tolls the long, hard distance NATO has come from the days when Ike and Al first set up headquarters in the Astoria Hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, and ex-Prizefighter Georges Carpentier ran the bar downstairs. Then there were fewer than 15 NATO divisions, only one of them combat ready; the rest were largely split up into occupation units. Then there was no plan, and no communications to set it in motion. A phone call to Oslo took twelve hours, and passed through the Soviet zone of Germany. All that stood between the Russians and the English Channel...