Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election. More than at any time in the last two years, the British public wanted to know what, specifically, the Tories would do if they had power. Churchill was vague: "We would give you promptly and in good time the decisions which are necessary. . . ." He promised to "attack restrictive practices of all kinds." What the British wanted to know was how he planned to do that. Even his best wishers could not pretend that Churchill had offered anything but highly generalized thunder...
...partnership with Charlie Berns ran a Greenwich Village speakeasy in the early '205, eventually moved up to better-heeled 52nd Street where Jack & Charlie's "21" Club became world famed for serving elegant food & drink to Manhattan's glossiest people; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Prince Eugen of Sweden, 82, bachelor youngest brother of King Gustav V; of a heart attack; in Stockholm. The prince spent most of his unexciting life painting unexciting landscapes which decorate many a loyal Swedish public building...
Died. Gipsy Rodney Smith, 87, British evangelist whose gently persuasive voice pulled hundreds of thousands of repentant sinners to camp meeting altars all over the world for five decades; of a heart attack; on board the U.S.-bound Queen Mary...
Custer's chance came in the fatal expedition of 1876. Commanding a regiment in one of three columns advancing against an encampment of thousands of Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn, he was assigned to a scouting expedition. Instead of joining the other columns before attacking, as ordered, Custer decided to redeem himself and win undying glory by putting the Indian horde to rout alone and unaided. Custer's attack, Dr. Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force...