Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baltimore, a motorized column of University of Maryland students staged a night attack on Johns Hopkins University. Provocation: the kidnapping of a 400-lb. bronze terrapin from the University of Maryland campus. The invaders had to battle through barbed-wire entanglements and streams from fire hoses, were foiled when they got into the main dormitory-the defenders had covered the floors with a slippery mixture of soap chips and water...
...pamphlet admits vehemently that such an association has so far been made impossible by Russia's bearish, boorish behavior: "It is difficult to forgive from a recent ally such attacks as the following, broadcast to Norway by Moscow radio on June 8, 1946: 'This little country [England] went to war because it and its fascist reactionary leaders love war and thrive on war. The attack on Hitlerite Germany was purely incidental...
...Army Air Forces tried to impress the people of the Eastern Seaboard last week by flying 135 World War II Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
Died. Vance Smith, 31, whose 34-inch height prompted him to claim the title "America's Smallest Man" at the New York World's Fair and many a sideshow in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart attack; in New Albany...
Starting time will find Bob Forsythe and Jim Graham alongside Davis on the defense. Hans Estin with Dewey and Smith will make up the midfield trio and Dick Bezanson will aid Hurley and Rogers on the attack. Bill "Algie" Allen will be in his familiar spot in the nets...