Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the guerrillas' 105th brigade attacked government positions near Florina. It might be a diversionary attack to harass Greek army groups successfully mopping up Red pockets in central Greece, or it might be the beginning of a major spring offensive by the Communists. At any rate, the Greek army, which has heeded Soldier Van Fleet's advice, was ready. The attackers at Fiorina were driven back, with government troops in hot pursuit...
...than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...blobbed with boats. Wrote one critic: "A fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar artist, Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis' [picture] will prove the subject of a good deal of speculation...
...pain in his left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink she handed him a mirror, showed him that his lips were not blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes his own neurotic symptoms, but he has not played the Mozart quartet since that October evening a year and a half...
Coach Dick Meryman will start: at attack, Ned Yost, Bob Baldwin, and Lou Schaffer; at midfield, Rip Lynch, Al Sawyer, and Pete Brooke; at defense, Captain Bill Spence, Jay Byrne, and Godfrey Birckhead; and at goalie, Dick Thomas...