Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 140° in their compartment. They faced a nerve-shredding test of their skill and endurance: the City of Merced was about to take off in her final flight in the U.S. Strategic Air Command's annual bombing and navigation competition, the supreme peacetime test of air-combat capability. From split-second improvisations during the hours of competition come bombing and navigating techniques that are later adopted as standard operating procedure...
There was a special point of interest in this year's competition: Which would show up better, the reliable old B-36 (introduced in 1946), now on its way out as a combat weapon, or the flashier, faster (upwards of 600 m.p.h.) B-47? Last year the B-36 scored higher. This time the top SAC strategists staked their hopes and reputations...
...cases of Communist torture, into the effect of psychological pressures like the simple denial of food and sleep-perhaps the most effective tongue-looseners of all. The committee found that for the P.W.s of Korea "the ordeal was never easy. But things weren't easy either for the combat troops battling out there in the trenches...
...class. After taking his Ph.D. at Harvard, he joined the faculty, was one of the most promising young men in the history department. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, and because of his fluency in French and German, was eventually assigned to combat intelligence. To those who had known him before, it came as no surprise that he won the Silver Star for (among other things) advancing under heavy fire with three enlisted men to capture a forward enemy observation post along with nine enemy soldiers...
...Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago called for a restoration of the "Madonna concept" of woman to combat "sexualism and virulent attacks on family life." "The world seems to have gone sex crazy," he told the National Catholic Women's Union. Women must be restored to a position of "sacred dignity" and play the role of the Virgin Mary in "home, neighborhood, community and nation...