Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondering whether you would be interested in copy of a letter written by the President of Muller & Phipps (China) Ltd. to the Muller & Phipps New York office under date of Sept. 29, which date, you may perhaps remember, was that of a very heavy attack on Shanghai by the Japanese forces...
...bloody Rightist attack west of Toledo beaten off, and another that captured several hundred yards of dugouts and trenches on the Aragon front near Olivan, were the only actions of importance on the ground last week. No qualified observers would admit that the winter's stalemate for which all Spanish noncombatants were devoutly praying...
Shelling of Madrid, resumed fortnight ago after a six weeks' respite, continued heavy, an apparent prelude to another attack on the city. Bombers and pursuit planes of both sides were busy raiding concentration points, troop trains and munitions dumps, shadow-boxing violently to try to find out who was trying to do what, where. A sign that at least the Moorish reserves of El Caudillo Franco were beginning to run low came from Algeciras last week, where 500 bewildered boys were unloaded from the transport Cindad de Algeciras. None of them appeared to be more than 13 years...
...unidentified undergraduates spent a busy afternoon yesterday, if the word of one who gave his name as Chief Laughing Bull is to be believed. For, replete with war paint, blankets, feathers, moccasins, and blank cartridge pistols, the group staged an attack on the government-sponsored pioneer expedition in Warren, Massachusetts, just before sundown...
...field. Strategically they entered the woods, donned their paraphernalia, warwhooped, and then charged down a convenient hill. Unfortunately some of the group were so tired by this maneuvering that they were able to take little part in the battle which ensued. Only eight showed up for the actual attack, anyway, since one fell in a dump and another in a brook...