Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your cover and article on Admiral Pride [Feb. 7] . . . I was one of his O.O.D.s in combat on the Belleau Wood during the tough part of World War II ... Pride is a modern Abraham Lincoln - the very soul of humility, inspiring confidence at every turn. He commands respect but returns respect in full measure...
Snapped the left-wing Combat: "This absurd regime dishonors France, submits her to ridicule abroad, and is pushing her toward catastrophe." Man for man, few legislatures can equal the men of the French Assembly for wit, eloquence and intelligence. Many of its leaders are honored veterans of the French Resistance. Why are these courageous men unable, despite themselves, to give France a stable government? The answer is simple, but not helpful: France is deeply distrustful of a strong government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four...
...Devil is getting his due in French books, plays and movies these days, and Author Gabriel Venaissin notes the trend in the current issue of Combat: "An odor of sulphur hovers over Paris . . . The Devil in 1955 uses Chanel perfume, however. He is a distinguished man of the world . . . Lucifer burns no one today. But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other...
Postwar Promotion. Stalin, after the war, shunted aside the triumphant combat soldiers like Zhukov. but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and finally a full member of the Politburo. Medals jangling, he reviews Red Square parades, sometimes on horseback, but more recently, as his weight has increased, in a ZIS limousine. Soviet officers still joke that he does not know the difference between a mortar and a howitzer...
...unusual mildness of statement, it would be wrong to assume that the AMA has decided to give expanded health insurance a trial run. The same $2,000,000 lobby which fought Blue Cross health insurance, Social Security, and workmen's compensation in the 1930's stands prepared to combat suggested programs which would bring essential protection of medical health insurance to more people...