Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week bird lovers were again having a time. In the letters column of the Manchester Guardian, several correspondents described the belligerent tendency of male British bullfinches and chaffinches to attack their own reflections in windowpanes, incidentally disturbing the early morning slumber of human Britons. Nobody suggested shooting the noisemakers; the correspondents seemed to favor a mild deterrent-white paper stretched over the window to abolish reflection...
...style for the Jayvees, holding the Elis to seven hits while his mates were pounding out 14, including five extra base blows. Hal Moffle blasted a homer and a double, Fred Glimp and Steve Howe unloaded triples, and Clay himself produced a homer. Moffle and Bucky Harrison led the attack with three hits apiece...
...Maddux had Captain Hans Estin back at midfield for the season's last game and Paul Davidson on attack. The Crimson's nine goal total seems to attest the success of the move...
...weapons for secret warfare exist. That I am competent to assure you . . . In a secret war the country under attack might wither as a nation, without knowing it had even been sick . . . Those who watch vital statistics might discover a suspicious increase in infant mortality-for the year ending a year ago. New pests would appear that survived the usual sprays. Cattle would develop diseases the county agents had never seen...
...tradition, Cohn thinks, is a logical consequence of segregation, and segregation a logical consequence of the whites' refusal to tolerate intermarriage. He says flatly that there is no solution to the problem, if this is the problem. He believes that Northern Negroes and civil-rights defenders who, in attacking segregation, also attack complaisant Negroes as "handkerchief heads" and "Uncle Toms," are merely being reckless. But, says Cohn, if Mississippi whites were sure that Negroes would accept social segregation, they might be much more inclined to give them every other kind of equality (in voting, schooling, jobs). He thinks they...