Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived up to his promise, for Friday afternoon a whole tribe of "noble savages," dressed in blankets and other Indian trimmings, made a full-scale attack on Stoughton. Yard cops and students, however, managed to repulse the onslaught, and the red-men had to be content with pitching a tepee north of the Old Pump...
...fact: the Harvard Athletic Association and its director, William J. Bingham'16, are not to blame. This week's protesting furor is at heart resentment of a rule that has been part of the allotment system since before the season started, a rule which rolled along unscathed by public attack until enforcement of it began...
...Yugoslavs, said the Chilean Government, were key agents of the new Communist International. Furthermore, the Communist party's Latin-American section was out to persuade Latin countries to join the Soviet bloc, attack the continental defense policy. Direction of this ambitious scheme came, Chile said, from headquarters in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina...
...have ordered your young men into combat with the irresistible forces of Columbia. Your leaders . . . promise victories. You know what you get. There is still time for you to retire with honor. Surrender. . . . You will be treated humanely." Two days later, Underdog Yale countered with a more orthodox aerial attack (17 completed passes...
Died. Samuel Hoffenstein, 57, master writer of satiric light verse (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...