Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighter, proved for combat, was heralded by the United States Air Force yesterday. Having solved the problem of heavy fire power from aircraft flying at speeds approaching that of sound, the P-84 Thunderjet is "Now fully qualified for operational service...
...phrase 'freedom of the press' is to have any meaning," he declared, "the press must combat restrictive influences outside the industry and its own inertia and acquiescence to the status...
...Dick Harlow's favorite commentaries on the art of coaching runs, "The only way to learn to play football, gentlemen, is to play football." Yesterday the Varsity A squad held its first scrimmage outside of Saturday combat in several weeks. Last year two or three midweek contact sessions were the general rule. The coaching staff repeatedly announced this fall that contact work would be resumed "as soon as the team was at least two deep in each position." The prospect of losing the last tackle or fullback was too frightening to permit much more than long signal drills...
...calling up several members of the Jayvee tam, Harlow fulfilled the condition and a combined Crimson A, B, and C eleven simulated actual combat against the Junior Varsity for a full hour under the lights of Soldiers Field. "It did the boys a world of good," said Harlow later...
...India and Pakistan since mid-August at least 100,000 have died, not of germs or hunger or what the law calls "acts of God," but of brutal slaughter. Scarcely one died in fair combat or with the consolations of military morale...