Word: combativeness
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...pertinacity of the Lampoon forces cannot but be admired as they troop to combat this afternoon, for extensive research has proved that during the last five games they have mustered ten runs against the 115 which have been amassed by the pressmen. A gentleman who is in hourly communication with the president of the humorous periodical, has intimated that he contemplates disguising his myrmidons in such a way that the score-keeper will be foiled in his frenzied attempt to keep track of the errors committed. It has even been suggested that they report in human guise, since they...
Such occurrences are common. The widows of Foch and Joffre are now inacrid, verbal combat because their husbands belittled each other in their books. Pershing's recent memoirs make out a very good case for General Pershing at the expense of the French and American War Departments. Petain is one of the few who was fair and unbiased as far as can be told...
...pester him for U. S. troops to fill their ragged ranks. One long tiresome tussle ensued for the next 18 months as the A. E. F. commander resisted this continuous Allied demand. Before he ever fought the Germans, General Pershing was a veteran toughened by this form of combat against the British and French commanders and politicians...
...General Pershing believed that the War could be won only by driving the enemy out of the trenches and engaging him in open warfare. He believed also that the French had acquired a "defensive complex" and, wedded to trench warfare, lacked the ability to teach the kind of open combat he wanted the A. E. F. to have. Therefore he resisted French instruction methods, insisted that all U. S. troops be drilled for cross-country fighting...
...whole, Rev. Peter Pastor is not so enthusiastic about combat as he was in 1917-18. In fact, he has been troubled in mind since then, whenever he reflects how militant he, the Prince of Peace's devotee, was in those days of "fighting parsons," flag-draped pulpits, flayed "Huns." He has pondered the differences between war psychology and the tolerance and pacifism of Jesus...