Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, TIME, instead of presenting these arguments impartially, has seen fit to publish a violently partisan attack on the conservationists (Vogt, Osborn et al.) . . . making light of the extinction of animal species, and referring to those who do not agree with the conservationists as "real scientists," as though some of the country's leading biologists and ecologists were snake-oil artists...
...Predicted Catastrophes." Eisenhower leaves something still to be said about the Battle of the Bulge. He spread his forces thin, he says, and accepted the calculated risk of a German attack so that the troops and supplies released could be used in attacks elsewhere. Yet he admits that intelligence reports had shown a German buildup there, and that nothing was done to offset it. Ike's own explanation seems a little lame: "This type of report is always coming from one portion or another of a front. The commander who took counsel only of all the gloomy intelligence estimates...
...someone must take the rap, Eisenhower is willing: "[My] plan gave the German opportunity to launch his attack against a weak portion of our lines. If giving him that chance is to be condemned by historians, their condemnation should be directed at me alone...
...dressing room. Here was the problem Art Valpey had to solve. Minus a passer (Kenary and Roche could hardly lift their arms above their heads), he had to figure out a way to gain on the ground against a Yale defense that was immediately rigged to stop such an attack...
...other and make very clear who had the noblest tenor, the most resounding bass. Like the teams that followed them Saturday, the singers were "up" for this performance, and as one group finished their stint and marched off the stage, their rivals would do them one better and attack the first song with just a little more bravado and spirit. This successive trumping went on until the home club sang "Fair Harvard"; Yale had no more alma maters left and the concert was over...