Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This attack occurred near Peekskill, N.Y. last week, after some 2,500 veterans had paraded to protest a second "concert" given by Paul Robeson and attended by thousands of his Communist-line followers. Both sides were looking for trouble: some of the concertgoers, carefully organized and briefed by their Communist leaders, came equipped with baseball bats; veterans and their sympathizers ambushed departing cars, bombarded them with sticks and heavy stones. Twenty-five buses had every window broken, eight cars were overturned, 145 people were hurt. Westchester County authorities blamed "teen-agers," commended the 904 policemen for preventing "mass killings...
When they picked up their morning papers last week, Budapesters could scarcely believe their eyes. The front-page attack on lazy Hungarian workers sounded like a product of "the slanderous propaganda machinery of Wall Street industrialists," and yet it had been signed by none other than Matyas Rakosi, the country's No. 1 Communist...
...kidnapings, Giuliano made a direct attack against the carabinieri in the dusty little hamlet of Bellolampo (Beautiful Lightning), only 20 minutes from Palermo. Luring the carabinieri out of their barracks, the bandits set off amine, blew up a truckload of 25. Seven died. When police officials rushed to the scene from Palermo, Giuliano's men tossed a grenade at the officials' car, swapped shots with them in a 15-minute fight...
...glasses or fingering his bristly mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...
Died. Macdonald Smith, 59, for almost 40 years one of golf's great stylists; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif. Although "the Silent Scot" made out handsomely in prize money (he won the Los Angeles Open four times), he never won a major tournament...