Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Servant's Role. When Franklin Roosevelt made his frontal assault on the "nine old men," Hughes reacted, in public at least, with Jovian calm. But he quietly and effectively fought F.D.R.'s effort to pack the court. When Roosevelt stood before him to be sworn in for a precedent-breaking third term, Hughes whispered through his beard: "Franklin, isn't this becoming a trifle monotonous?" A few months later, at 79, he resigned as Chief Justice and retired to a quiet life of quiet honors...
...resting, just resting" since Trainer Hirsch Jacobs sent him to a Virginia farm. Armed, second money winner ($773,700), sprained his left foreleg last winter, lost some easy races, and was retired to Calumet Farm because Trainer Jones didn't want to see the seven-year-old "degraded." Assault was retired to stud (but proved impotent) after losing the Widener Handicap last February (TIME, March 1). Citation's victory last week put him ahead of Assault as the third greatest money winner ($651,750) of all time...
Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...
...Work." Last winter AEC agreed to launch another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near Chicago. Under the supervision of hardheaded, 41-year-old Director Walter Zinn, Argonne will choose between three different approaches to a power reactor. Construction on one of them will be started early next year...
When the phrase "flower of England" was used to describe the young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord...