Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sneak Attack. In Memphis, Railroad Worker Earskin Johnson sued for divorce, charged that his wife had asked a voodoo doctor to hex him into giving her his whole paycheck...
...afternoon of the Tribuna attack, hooligans tore down the Soviet Embassy's shield. Moscow translated the incident into a "stoning" of the embassy, put Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandão and his entourage of nine under hotel arrest. Only when the Rio Soviet Embassy staff of 32 were safely off for Montevideo would Pimentel & friends get exit visas...
...Times, Managing Editor Edwin L. James answered Vishinsky's question, improving the occasion by reading him a short lesson on the difference between the Russian and the U.S. press. Wrote James: "There was no one who would order the Times not to print [the first Vishinsky attack] and since it was a formal speech by the representative of a great power, this newspaper printed it. . . . [Vishinsky] has repeated it over and over. There was no one to order his speech printed when there was no news in it and so it was not printed again. . . . Mr. Vishinsky is down...
Geologists, who sometimes attack their work from strange angles, have now been climbing mountains to make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
Other big guns in the Rutgers attack besides Burns and Hatchett include backs Herm Hering, Harvey Grimsley, Irwin Winkelried and John Sabo...