Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brigade. Kham Due shaped up as the kind of set-piece battle that General William Westmoreland yearned for in the early days of the massive U.S. presence in Viet Nam, when so much of his military force was expended in fruitless hunts for an enemy refusing to stand and fight. But now set-piece battles are not welcome in Washington, because of the high rate of U.S. casualties that result from hand-to-hand combat...
...given him 200,000 rubles. Historians accept the fact that Masaryk gave money to a number of Russians for a number of reasons: to help them escape to freedom in Western Europe; or for cultural purposes; or to help get Czech troops out of Russia to continue the fight against Germany after the Bolsheviks opted out of World War I. At his trial, Savinkov himself testified that he did not know exactly what the money was to be used for, and even the official Soviet history of Czechoslovakia published in 1960 did not accuse Masaryk, a gentle, scholarly...
Thus, the Australians fought in Korea, helped to crush Communist insurgents in Malaya in the late '50s and have sent 8,500 men to fight alongside U.S. troops in South Viet...
...known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, still has that golden gift of gab. His latest bit of doggerel, recited on college campuses while speaking for the cause of the Black Muslims, recounts the long journey in store for Joe Frazier, current pretender to the heavyweight crown, if ever they should fight...
came to the fight They'd witness the flight Of the first colored satellite...