Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprising Resistance. Professional neutralists, e.g., France's Le Monde, thought they saw their ship coming in. Le Monde advised Frenchmen to adopt "an active neutrality," and Combat predicted: "The word neutral will be forced on all those who discredited it." Yet the surprising fact in last week's news was the unsuspected strength of the European resistance to neutral belts, Russian model. French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay took to TV to tell the French people that "German neutrality "would offer Germany all the temptations of the seesaw policy between East and West, the disastrous effect of which...
...Every hour counts, every hour lost may be paid for in blood and disorder," cried Paris' Combat. Last week the fate of France's empire in North Africa continued its lurch toward decision. Both sides-the Arabs, who impatiently demand a measure of independence, and the French colonists, who would deny it to them-knew...
Unexpectedly, the French agreed last week to withdraw the combat troops of their 80,000-man expeditionary corps from the capital city of Saigon into embarkation zones on the coast. French Commissioner-General Paul Ely. who had underestimated the staying power of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, asked to be relieved of his command. Eagerly, in Freedom Palace young Vietnamese Nationalist officers worked out the details of the takeover that would give the Vietnamese effective control of Saigon for the first time in 90 years. Just to show that individual Frenchmen would always be welcome in his country as friends, Premier...
...Shall Rule? From Land's End to John o' Groat's, the spring air of Britain swirled alive last week with the sound of political combat-a noise deeply serious, bitterly contentious, sometimes strident with the ugly notes of class hatred, but for all that, comfortably reassuring. Election Day was coming again to the country where parliamentary democracy was born...
Probable Baritone. When World War I threatened, Biddle set up camp on a family estate and trained 40,000 men for U.S. fighting forces. One young marine boot named Gene Tunney took his first boxing lessons from Biddle. Later, the athletic Christian circled the world to find more punishing combat tricks to teach marine and FBI recruits. He also found time to write a dozen books ("in a rather half-nelson style," says his daughter) and give annual recitals at Philadelphia's august Academy of Music. ("Mr. Biddle is a baritone, I think," said one critic...