Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone with normal power of will can succeed as I did, I feel sure. In 1910, after an attack lasting several days, I determined to end the nuisance in future by bringing the diaphragm under direct control of the will. During future attacks, as I felt the recurrent spasms coming, I concentrated my will power to inhibit it. This entailed an exhausting struggle worse than hiccups, but it was successful . . . When I find I am hiccuping I simply stop, just as I would stop twiddling my watch chain, for instance...
Unorthodox Approach. The second night Warren appeared in Salt Lake City for the first formal speech of his campaign. It was here that he might have been expected to throw off his folksy, nonpartisan role for a slashing attack on the Democratic administration. Instead, Candidate Warren unmistakably showed his intention of campaigning in his own unorthodox way, in the same reasoned, almost nonpartisan approach which he had used in his successful California campaigns for attorney general and governor. The 1,700 Republican workers, who only half filled the South High School auditorium, listened in bewildered silence...
...their uses was the fact that few candidates had ever dared to ignore them. As long as one party was on the stump, the opposition could not afford to be silent. Even Franklin Roosevelt, confident as ever in 1944, became so alarmed by the possible inroads of the Dewey attack, and the whispers about his health, that he hustled out of Washington for his famed 51-mile ride through New York City in a drenching October rain...
Except for a promise to his farm audience that support prices would be maintained, Dewey attempted no detailed outline of his program, shrewdly contented himself with general pledges which friends wanted to hear and enemies would find difficult to attack. He promised a foreign policy "made effective by men & women who really understand the nature of the threat to peace and who have the vigor, the knowledge, and the experience required to wage peace successfully." He promised an administration "made up of men & women whose love of their country comes ahead of every other consideration." Cried Dewey: "I pledge...
...Georgetown home. Detectives found a bottle of sleeping tablets nearby, and her brother told the Washington Post that she had been despondent because Cissie Patterson had not kept a promise to "clear the mortgage" on her house. A preliminary autopsy report showed, however, that she died of a heart attack. A final report on Betty Hynes's death was due this week. But the mystery of Charles Porter bade fair to be a mystery for some time to come...