Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apathetic--be athletic!" comes the plaintive cry from the Radcliffe Athletic Association in a desperate attempt to combat the inertia of the average 'Cliffedweller...
...cure or that a few applications of social-service soporifics and mental-hygiene maxims will fix. Mutinous adolescents and their violent deeds now appear as specimens of the shape of things to come, as models of an emergent type of humanity." Furthermore, Lindner believes that society, in trying to combat the epidemic, only compounds the conditions that generate the psychopathic virus-by "the myth of conformity, the big lie of adjustment...
Many a veteran of Korea came home angry and bitter about G.I.s' inadequate training. General Van Fleet wrote: "American boys . . . learn . . . only in combat, after three or more heavy battles, during which their casualties from enemy fire are enormously greater than they need be, [if we] could . . . have properly trained them (killing a few) back in the States on maneuvers...
When the Korean war came, he had a soft touch in the finance service, but he wanted combat duty. He was sent to an infantry refresher course, and then as a corporal to Korea. After 123 combat patrols, he came home a master sergeant, took an officer candidate course, ranked seventh among the 54 who last August got commissions in his group...
...away the most potent air force of any Central American nation: the F51 was a hot plane in its day. But with deadly U.S. jets only 30 minutes away, Tacho may find that there is not money enough in Nicaragua to tempt any air soldier of fortune to risk combat in a World War II propeller...