Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France last week, production was being stepped up on a trim, twin-jet plane with a graceful butterfly tail. The plane was France's Magister, a light, two-place trainer (made by Etablissements Fouga) that can hit 450 m.p.h., perform most of the maneuvers of heavier, more expensive combat cratt. The French air force has ordered 100 of the new Magisters; last week the hard-to-please NATO training committee was also recommending the plane to West Germany and other NATO nations as the standard basic trainer for fledgling jet pilots...
...paper, to all the safe island harbors between Tedium and Apathy. But what moviegoers see is less a ship than a floating prep school: Captain James Cagney is as fussy, opinionated and domineering as any self-seeking headmaster; Henry Fonda, the cargo officer who continually sighs to be in combat, fills the role of a young Mr. Chips; the crew's schoolboy pranks are only thinly disguised as adult antics. Even when the sailors, with binoculars glued to their eyes, are squirming with delight at the glimpse of a nurse taking a shower, it is merely boyish high spirits...
During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force auxiliary sparked Canada's 200,000-man air buildup; its pilots trained and led combat squadrons overseas. But today its 5,000 part-time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...
...Leader editorial denouncing the Supreme Court [June 13] advocated that Virginia "get around the law." The angry editor adds: "Two broad courses only [are] available to the South. One [is] to defy the court openly and notoriously; the other [is] to accept the court's decision and to combat it by legal means...
Citation: "Squarejawed in the conviction that America's only hope for survival is in unified effort for peace backed by firm international agreement to combat aggression, he graces the launching platform of the U.N. as a self-guided missile with a homing instinct, primed for a global trajectory, and well laden not with the seed of destruction but the hope of humanity...