Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only when Murphy began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
More Austerity? Sir Stafford's system of planned austerity and bilateral deals, under attack at La Muette, had met still graver difficulties in London. A near-panic on London's exchange had sent government bonds plummeting to new lows for the year; in a single week the value of gilt-edged consols (government bonds) dropped by close to ?250 million. Said the London Economist: "The truth is that the crisis which the British did not expect until 1952-and hoped to be prepared for by then-is already upon them...
...went on, Meryon saw stranger things. His later cityscapes were ruined, collectors thought, by the introduction of monstrous birds and whales wallowing overhead. After he had printed etchings of two perpendicular boxes in which a man and a woman were padlocked to sleep standing up, and made a written attack on ordinary beds ("A piece of furniture that serves the purpose of laziness and lust"), Meryon was hustled off to a madhouse. There, at 46, he died...
Though Olsen & Johnson did poorly on radio in the 1930's, they are confident about their TV future because "all our gags are ocular." The audience-under constant attack from live piglets, cakes of ice, skirt-blowers, chorus girls and clowns -has always been an integral part of their act. The comics have not yet quite solved the problem of framing their wide-ranging madhouse on TV's small screen. By using five television cameras (instead of the two or three used on most TV shows), Olsen & Johnson think they will be able to get the visual intimacy...
...charge of "bigness," and that alone, seemed to be the nub of the complaint. Snapped he: "Since these relationships [between Du Pont and the other companies] have been a matter of public information for many years, the motive for this suit must arise out of a determination ... to attack bigness in business as such." The New York Herald Tribune agreed. It gave the back of its hand to Tom Clark for "Pecksniffian" charges, and said: "Mere size is the Government's primary target [though] the Government itself has fostered bigness in American industry...