Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rascals. Cynics. Men without shame," raged Prime Minister Fidel Castro, back on TV and so agitated that the pencil he uses for a baton in his harangues went Hying across the room. The targets of his newest attack were the conservative Havana dailies, Avance (circ. 22,000) and Diario de la Marina (circ. 28,000), which up to now have supported Castro, but are growing restive under his highhanded rule. Last week the papers sounded a loud, clear voice of opposition in Cuba, and the Prime Minister was infuriated. "They play the game for vested interests," cried Castro...
...over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...
...aseptic techniques. In those days, 90% or more of potentially fatal infections were picked up on the outside, and the hospital was the place to go to be cured. Today, even in the best hospitals, more than half of all fatal infections are acquired inside the hospital, where they attack patients already weakened by other diseases or by operations...
...giving recitals in his native St. Louis when he was six. By the time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert circuit. What mainly impressed Leventritt judges was his bold and apparently effortless attack, his ability to strike emotional fires that sharpened rather than distorted the logic of any piece he was playing. While almost everybody else fidgeted nervously at last week's finals, Pianist Frager retired to the artists' room, snapped out the lights and sat quietly in the pitch dark...
...perfected a rifle-shot volley, at 15 teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship, won the Olympic singles the only year (1924) competition was held, at 23 startled fans by turning pro and triggering the professional-tennis movement in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...