Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hulse led the Crimson attack with a trio of goals, with Curtis and Butt ringing up two apiece. Burton, Gray, and Cox tallied once each to complete the rout of the local schoolboys...
...with the progressive directors of the Coop. As leaders of a Cooperative enterprise, they rightly shoulder the foibles and failings of the community as their own, and have launched a subtle attack on all this loose talk about provincialism. We know one New Yorker whom they have badly baffled...
McNamee calls the attack vicious. Few with an objective viewpoint can call his running description less than vicious. It is a definite incitement to war. Preceded by a resounding ballyhoo of advance publicity the pictures seem definitely keyed to a war hawkian pitch. Few will deny the American people the right to see the pictures, but it is hardly too much to ask that the producers do not attempt to stir up a war fever in an effort to sell their pictures...
...This team has great strength on the attack. Indeed, I defy anybody to pick a more offensive aggregation." So wrote massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice...
...authoritative treatises and periodicals like FORTUNE. Each issue is submitted to experts on both sides of controversial questions before publication. Although every issue asks U. S. schoolchildren to think about how better use can be made of the nation's resources. Building America has thus far escaped serious attack. Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram denounced the Power issue as propaganda for public ownership of electric utilities, but that dispute wound up with Scripps-Howard's Editor George B. Parker eulogizing the magazine as "one of the best [ideas] in the whole history of education...