Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Single Yardstick. Despite his dissatisfaction with the North African invasion, Stimson supported it once it was launched. When Wendell Willkie was preparing to go on the air to attack the Eisenhower-Darlan agreement, Stimson grabbed for his telephone. "I told him flatly that if he criticized the Darlan agreement at this juncture he would run the risk of jeopardizing the success of the United States Army in North Africa and would be rendering its task very much more difficult...
...Bouwerie devoted a "day" to him. Latvian churches prized his ikons. His paintings hung in 25 countries. League of Nations committees solemnly discussed his "Banner of Peace" (a red circle enclosing three red spheres on a field of white), which would protect religious and cultural buildings from attack in future wars...
...current fad is for all players to chase after the puck, rather than for two defensemen to hang back behind their own blue line when the action is at the other end of the ice. This form of mass attack was formerly used only when a team was behind, or the enemy was shorthanded; now it is the accepted style of play. The trick is now to carry the puck up to midice, then bat it down in the general vicinity of the enemy goal, with everyone but the goalie scrambling after it. More goals are made: scores now read...
...reasons man does not live a dog's full life is a group of degenerative diseases that attack the heart, kidneys, brain and arteries in middle-and old-age. At least 4,000,000 people in the U.S. now have heart disease, said Dr. Bortz. Unless something is done to stop it, said Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of the University of Illinois, half the babies born in 1940 will eventually die of various types of degenerative diseases of the circulatory system and kidneys...
...revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...