Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic pressures, Japan should feel forced to accept political arrangements with the Communist mainland," said U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at Bangkok last fortnight, "that would surely have a grave effect upon the entire free world position in Asia. All of us know what it meant to combat Japan alone ... If there should be combined at any time under international Communism the power of Soviet Russia in Asia, of Communist China, and the industrial capability of Japan-if all three were a unit of force, then, I think, we must recognize that our position . . . would be extremely precarious...
...Roswell board of education retorted that it saw nothing illegal in the weekly meetings, which were originally planned to combat juvenile delinquency. The school principal agreed to one change: he would not announce the meetings publicly beforehand. Said the Roswell Record: "It appears extremely doubtful to us that the attorney general's opinion had good and sufficient grounds . . . We all must make an effort to convince the high-school students that devotion and decency are virtues to be cultivated and admired...
Some critics may argue that the priest is too patly saved, but combat soldiers will find nothing unnatural in this result of trial by battle. Author Hardy's terse story is not only credible, it is played out in a setting that is both exciting and topical. Himself a liaison officer in IndoChina at the close of World War II, he has written battle scenes and jungle descriptions that are hotly authentic. Now an accountant, Hardy wrote The Place of Jackals as "an antidote to this rather boring job." No one who reads it will be bored...
These benefits should extend to all those who enter the Armed Forces during the present emergency, for although there is no actual fighting at the moment, few could deny that servicemen run a very real risk of entering a combat area some time in the future. In line with the danger involved, it is significant that Eisenhower accepted Congress' objections to his own order only after the Straits of Formosa had again become a cruising area for the Seventh Fleet. The crises and lulls in the world situation should not be a gauge for on-again, off-again educational rights...
...Ferret and Hero Gaston have the time of their lives, swashbuckling through the most amusing piece of Gallic whimsy to cross the Atlantic in a long while. Coming aboard the imaginary La Douce as an officer, Gaston is welcomed by his kinsman, and performs such deeds of valor in combat with the Spaniards as would shame a Walter Mitty. Far from being a coward, Captain Eugéne is a great commander and gentleman. In a fine, frenzied finale, the English warship is indeed met and run from, but for reasons that give both Gaston and the reader plenty...