Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smeared marmalade on his rhubarb at breakfast? Then there was the broadcast over Britain's Government-owned BBC. Carefully his sponsors explained that the occasion was nonpolitical, calling for light pleasantries. Wallace had nodded vaguely, mumbled that he understood. Then he launched into a violent attack on U.S. "power politics." Said a sponsor: "We were appalled-but delighted, too. We could never have got it on the air ourselves...
Said the President: "If war should ever again become imminent it would be intolerable to find ourselves in our present position of being bound by our own legislation to give aid and support to any power which might later attack...
Once Preacher Coffin collapsed in the pulpit with intestinal flu, causing a flurry of transpacific cables when the incident was reported in the New York Times. Once an attack of dysentery forced him to hand over his lecture script to his wife. But by & large, Dr. Coffin thinks his trip went off smoothly...
Last month, Reynolds decided to break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...
Experimentation with the running attack, which exploded with the force of a small, wet firecracker against Brown and Rhode Island State last week, has dominated recent practice sessions. Today, while everybody rests up, groundskeepers will got a chance to freshen up the Stadium cinders for the spiked-shoe invasion...