Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft briefly outlined our fight for liberty and the personal heroism of Paul Revere and William Dawes and then declared, "Today we face an assault on liberty." He went on, "The gradual growth of taxation itself has been a threat to American liberty...
While awaiting the river's assault, the more populous Omaha-Council Bluffs area worked feverishly to strengthen flood walls, assisted by thousands of Army troops, National Guardsmen and Army Engineers. A two-foot "flashboard" was being added to the 31½-ft. levee and flood wall at Omaha. But its value was as much psychological as physical. Few expected the levee to withstand the pressure of a predicted 31½-ft. flood crest. After inspecting the inadequate dikes and flood walls, Brigadier General Don G. Shingler, Missouri River Division Engineer, remarked gloomily: "The Missouri is coming with...
...thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged off the assault: "If the Senate feels I am crooked, or it has no confidence in my abilities, it won't confirm...
...career. He is signed for at least four new movies (including one with Abbott & Costello), and this week begins a new radio series for the American Medical Association. He has enough reading projects to keep him busy for a decade. He intends to find time for another assault on Shakespeare : his great ambition is to do a really bang-up performance of King Lear, but he doesn't yet feel ready for the part. Tentatively scheduled for this fall is another reading tour based on James Thurber's My Life and Hard Times...
...actual Swiss assault on Everest is expected to come in May. Avalanche Expert Roch, echoing the aspirations of mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed...