Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lined banks. "Jeep," a comedian, stepped to the microphone, opened his mouth to sing, and a grenade exploded among the dancers. From darkness surrounding the brightly lighted open-air café came the flash and rattle of automatic rifle fire. Four Jews were killed, twelve wounded. Survivors said the attackers were Arabs. If so, the raid was the first serious attack by Arabs on Jews since...
Throughout Paraguay's five months' civil war, the rebel base had been Concepcion, 130 miles up the Paraguay River from Morínigo's capital, Asunción. Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles...
Harry Walker's circus catch was not a grandstand play. After an attack of spinal meningitis in the Army three years ago, he was so stiff that doctors doubted he could ever play major-league ball again. He is still so stiff that he cannot make shoestring catches. But by applying base-running technique to his ball-chasing, he manages to be one of the most spectacular fielders in the game. Last week he was doing more than that for Ben Chapman's last-place Phillies: with a .344 average, he was leading both leagues in hitting...
Died. Peter Aitken, 35, auto-racing younger son of British Newsmagnate Lord Beaverbrook; of a heart attack; in Stockholm, where he was vacationing...
Died. General Anton Ivanovich Denikin. 74, peasant-born onetime Imperial Russian Army officer, who in 1919 led his White troops in a drive through southern Russia to near victory over the Reds; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich...