Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean, 56, top-ranking hero of the Korean war and for three grisly years a prisoner of the Chinese Reds, packed his military gear for retirement this week. Highlight of Medal-of-Honorman Dean's last parade at San Francisco's famed Presidio: the award of a combat infantryman's badge, which he missed...
...bugs got out of hand when Army medics had to lay down their DDT guns and pick up Mis. Since this realization, U.S. forces have had relatively little trouble (only 30 cases, two deaths on Okinawa this year). They spray mosquito lairs, sleep under nets; in a tough combat situation they would slaughter all the nesting birds they could find...
...supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...
...President Truman was considering the projected U.S. invasion of Japan, MacArthur's advice was requested. He noted, among other favorable factors: "The hazard and loss will be greatly lessened if an attack is launched from Siberia sufficiently ahead of our target date to commit the enemy to major combat...
...attempt to combat a predicted rise of street gangs in the Central Square-Charles River area, Phillips Brooks House will take part in a pioneer social project...