Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tories had behaved much like the U.S. Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...
...recommittal was 49-42, on a compromise amendment by Senator Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.) which would have eliminated only the disclaimer affidavit and not the loyalty affirmation. For this reason, Williams sees little promise in the new Kennedy-Clark strategy of separating the two provisions and concentrating their attack on the disclaimer affidavit...
Coach Bruce Munro said yesterday that the encounter should give the varsity a chance to perfect its offense. The Crimson's attack so far this season has been unpolished but effective, and the loss of Roger Tuckerman, last season's star center forward, already seems less of a calamity than was originally feared...
...British general who won a chestful of decorations in half a century of fighting far and wide for the Empire, commanded a daring but futile expedition (1918-19) against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young spy was awarded the German Military Service Medal...
...Thomson, 81, longtime publisher-owner (1906-41) of the New Orleans Item, now States & Item, the South's oldest evening daily newspaper, who lambasted the Louisiana tyranny of Huey Long, supported Al Smith for President in 1924, later (1956) became a strict states'-righter; of a heart attack; in Gaylord...