Word: assault
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still taking the attitude that running wasn't everything, Eichner found plenty of time for team sports in between his assault on the record book, and recalls with a special fondness his victories on the gridiron...
...John, a senior from Chappaqua, N.Y., playing his first game since he damaged knee ligaments September 29, started a wing-and-a-prayer aerial assault on the Dartmouth secondary. With the Big Green hanging back to prevent the longainer, St. John drilled two straight passes to Richie Horner...
...Volcker's approach, however, finance men and bankers now saw not just another quick fix but a direct assault on inflation itself. Said West German Finance Minister Hans Matthöfer: "The package goes straight to the heart of the problem." Brussels Banker Roland Leuschel expressed a conviction shared by almost all European moneymen: "Throttling back on the money supply itself will be much more effective than raising interest rates in the fight against inflation. Paul Volcker is attacking inflation at its source...
...dollar-rescue package of November 1978. The West Germans told the new Fed chief that any sort of Son of Rescue plan would now be simply unacceptable. If Washington wanted anything more than disdainful sympathy for its economic malaise, the Germans indicated, it would have to stage a sustained assault on inflation itself. The U.S. could not just go on blabbering about exchange-rate instability, as if all the dollar's woes boiled down to foreigners not wanting to own the crumbling currency...
...This assault on mechanical modernism--one of Barth's correspondents describes "those symbol-fraught Swiss watches and Schwarzwald cuckoo clocks of Modernism"--hardly fits a novel that follows a schematic masterplan. You see, if you take the seven letters of the title-word "letters," superimpose them on a seven-month calendar using a quaint motto, so that the letters of the motto form the letters of "letters," then each letter of the motto will fall neatly onto a date in the calendar, one for each of the letters in the book...