Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not fail to convince everyone that Mr. Truman, while a candidate for reelection, nevertheless was still Mr. Johnny-on-the-job. High officials who later had it quoted to them (few ever actually got to see it) remembered such phrases as "unfriendly country" and "mobilization to meet an attack." Whereas the country was so ill-prepared for attack, the document continued, the Defense Department was ordered to organize the nation's reserves and report progress within 60 days...
...Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre reported: "Good can come out of that talk, for it can dissipate Europe's terror and engender the strength and courage which could prevent war. To build that strength and courage, Europe does need time. The Kremlin, by launching a sudden attack, has the power to refuse Europe the time it needs, and to cut short this period of Europe's moral regeneration. That is the risk. But it is a risk which more & more Western Europeans are willing to take...
Curtis ("Buzzy") Boettiger, who recovered from a mild attack of polio six weeks ago, and his boss, Henry Morgenthau, who are making a tour of Israel for the United Jewish Appeal, were all right (except for possible jangled nerves) after a few minutes under mortar fire in Negeb...
Frankie concentrated on a ground attack, watched enemy reaction to the flankers he sent out and the men-in-motion he set off. Thinking three plays ahead, he expanded and contracted the enemy's defense like a skilled accordion player. Last week's final score: San Francisco 21, Baltimore...
Family Arguments. "We are not part of the McCormick-Patterson axis," says Alicia shortly. "We're really independent. We can attack anybody we want, because we don't want anything from anybody." In 1940, when Alicia was for F.D.R. and her husband for Wendell Willkie, they argued it out on the editorial page. Now there is no argument; both are for Dewey. She also broke with her father, editorially, on his isolationism. Newsday looks with favor on ECA, and, like its commuting readers, with impatience on the Long Island railroad...