Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this ghastly and disastrous view. The noise and smoke in urban areas are but echoes of battles lost in homes, schools and churches where moment by moment the American character is forged. It should be obvious that, in country or city, the Negro throughout this nation will continue to fight desperately for the honest answer to his plight-for equality status. Why? Simply because being an American has come to signify to him what it does for the rest of us-the dignity of the individual. It is those who would deprive him of this heritage who are totally irresponsible...
...totalitarian dictatorship has started to melt. It's remarkable that a nation that was betrayed by the West is able to accomplish the liberalization, with re-establishment of some of the basic freedoms, without outside help or interference. The question arises: Is it worth it or justified to fight Communism with precious American blood in the jungles of Southeast Asia when the same system seems gradually disintegrating from the inside in Central Europe...
...37th sat Abrams himself, often far out in front of the nearest U.S. units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans," growled Abrams, "and we can fight by ourselves." It was Abrams in his Sherman tank who led the relief column into Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. It was Abrams again who led the dash to the Rhine, moving so fast that he once surprised a German general and his staff with their boots...
...always in the war when the Communists do not choose to fight, the allies for the moment could find few of the enemy. The explanation lay neither in a purposeful de-escalation by Hanoi to abet peace talks nor the possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration...
Desperately disappointed? Naturally. And yet there was glory enough in the losing fight. Both angler and skipper belong to a proliferating new breed of saltwater sportsman; the light-tackle fisherman, to whom the fight is more important than the catch, and sport means giving the fish a sporting chance...