Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stronger and more effective than the other substance known to cause asthma attacks, histamine. While scientists developed anti-histamine years ago, the substance "is not very effective in treating asthma." Corey said. Scientists expect an "anti-SRS" substance will combat asthma more effectively...
...Jimmy Carter as he announced that he would ask Congress this week to require young women, as well as young men, to register for the draft. But the President is still opposed to sending women, who now make up about 8% of the volunteers in U.S. military service, into combat. Said he: "Women are not [now] assigned to units where engagement in close combat would be part of their duties, and I have no intention of changing that policy...
...take off within five minutes. Others on 15-and 30-minute alerts wait in the ready room prepared to dash to their aircraft. On a typical day, each carrier's steam-propelled catapults launch 90 sorties. Some warplanes, such as the Mach 2.4 F-14 Tomcat, make combat runs, dropping practice bombs on targets towed by U.S. ships. Others, like the RF4 Phantom, fly reconnaissance missions. Confronting Task Force 70 is a Soviet flotilla of about ten guided missile cruisers, destroyers and frigates and more than a dozen support ships. At week's end the U.S. Navy...
...newspaper ad described it as a "charming penthouse with fireplace" in a "restored town house." But when the apartment-hunting couple gave a taxi driver the address in lower Manhattan's East Village, he blurted: "That's the combat zone! I'm not going there, buddy." The couple finally pulled up in front of a building that had rats scurrying up the narrow stairs, cockroaches dancing in the fetid rooms and bars on the narrow windows. The "fireplace" was a drawing with colored flames. Rent? "Well," rasped the agent, "they're asking a thousand, but seeing...
...Birds Sang goes a long way to explain why Mowat chose the unpaved road. The book, his 21st, is a memoir of scorching experiences as a combat officer during World War II. It is Mowat's finest work, an autobiography in which a painful past emerges after many years with the figurative power of fiction...