Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest, Dreptatea used up most of its front page to publish a document which contained a remarkable paragraph. It seemed to be an insanely reckless attack on Joseph Stalin. The paragraph...
...Blue Plan called for an attack, à la Bastille,† on the Vannes prison in Brittany and the Fresnes prison near Paris. They were scheduled to be stormed Aug. 6, and collaborationists kept there were to be armed. Commandos were to cut rail lines, seize communications centers. Anti-Communist fears were to be whipped up by a series of disasters on the Reichstag Fire model...
...Vulnerable Minority. Many virus diseases that chronically attack man-measles, mumps, chickenpox, herpes (blistered lips)-are mild. Serious epidemics, Burnet says, usually arise 1) in a susceptible population that has not been exposed to the virus, or 2) from a virulent new virus produced by a change in an old form...
...Greenland, Burnet points out, generally withstand the arctic winter without illness but summer's first ship brings a violent epidemic of colds. Doctors think that vulnerable victims catch it from carriers who are immune through constant exposure. Even great flu epidemics like the 1918 pandemic, says Burnet, attack only a vulnerable minority of the population. And most flu epidemics quickly run their course, leaving the population immune, at least temporarily, to another epidemic...
...relinquished his lordly 37th-floor suite for a time to the deliberating Big Four foreign ministers. This spring he sailed for a summer's holiday in Norway, his wife's old home. There last week the nation's No. 1 innkeeper died of a heart attack, as he sat in the lobby of Hamar's Astoria Hotel...