Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Female Conscripts. On the other side, the Viet Cong has taken full advantage of the martial tradition of Vietnamese women, a tradition that goes back to the two Trung sisters' fight to repel Chinese invaders in A.D. 39. Running short of male conscripts, the Communists have lately recruited all-female combat units. Women now make up an estimated one-third to one-half of V.C. main-force troops...
...resigned-taking a parting shot, albeit friendly, at Luce: "It's very hard to be as successful as you have been and still keep your belief in the desperate necessity for fundamental change. I think you have been an honorable journalist. You would have been happier in a fight, though...
Actually, a fight was indeed coming, and vast changes. Luce used his publications wholeheartedly to support the Allied cause (if TIME and LIFE failed to sell the U.S. on the idea of material aid, he cabled his editors from Europe shortly after Hitler invaded Belgium, "it probably won't matter much what these estimable publications say in years to come"). He saw that World War II marked the end of an uncertain, isolationist period in U.S. life-he called it a shameful period-and realized that it also marked the beginning of global U.S. influence, which he welcomed...
...lanky Harvard graduate, Bayne had worked for almost a year in Maharashtra state in India, demonstrating new types of seed to farmers and helping them to fight rats. In the village he drank unboiled water. Bayne's first clue that something was amiss came in mid-August, when cigarettes "just didn't taste good." He quit smoking. A week later, he was nauseated and running a fever. The Peace Corps got him into Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital, where physicians at first thought that this was going to be a routine case. They reported: "Condition satisfactory...
...boxing writers and other ring experts to rate famous pugilists on a scale of 58 variables, ranging from the standard (speed, cutability, punching power) to the subtle (killer instinct, ring generalship, courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings of fights to determine the number and kinds of punches each boxer threw. Then he reduced the field to the 16 top-rated heavyweights, from bare-knuckled John L. Sullivan to fancydancing Muhammad Ali. He fed all the information into a National Cash Register 315 computer. After proper programming, the machine...