Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yard police were unaware of any subversive activity until a phone call informed them of the paint-and-poster attack. Several student night-owis reported seeing a car containing four students at various points along Mill Street...
Henry Lamar's Freshman eleven, with Boston University's winged-T attack, broke away for several long gains against Varsity B and C teams, and further defensive scrimmage was indicated for the next two days...
...good one, but they were seldom taken in by the publicity Patton courted. Most line troops resented his flashy, self-designed uniforms, sardonically muttered "our blood and his guts," when they heard his pre-battle exhortations. No Third Army infantryman could have written such stuff-&-nonsense as this: "An attack might appear suicidal, but if 'Georgie' ordered it, it was accepted as a sound and tenable mission...
This kind of runaway lingo often leads Historian Allen into exaggerations. Where a few casualties were inflicted on a German combat patrol, Allen recalls that they were "mowed down." A minor attack became a powerful counterattack, prisoners are credited to the wrong division and the negotiated surrender of a distant enemy division is described as if the enemy troops laid down their arms at the mere sight of Patton...
Harlow termed the play of the team as a whole ragged "In spurts and stops." After several quick touchdown, the Crimson attack was effectively stalled until the last 16 minutes of the game, when Western Maryland tired badly, yielding 8 of 14 first downs and four more touchdowns. He also thought the team's covering on kick-offs was weak and would require a lot of work this week...