Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until now, European aid has been mostly economic, rather than military; things should remain this way. There is a great, if psychological, difference between guns and steel. There is a difference between the commitment to help nations when they are attacked, and their indiscriminate arming prior to such attack. The only possible justification for a Western European arms aid program might be a military one, and the military argument is invalid. Outside of this, neither the solidarity of the North Atlantic nations nor the general international situation requiring this solidarity warrants such a program...
Point by point they answered the article by Dr. Karl C. Wold, a St. Paul doctor who had written a book on the health of U.S. Presidents. Author Wold had said flatly that F.D.R. suffered a stroke as early as 1938, and had two other strokes before the attack that ended his life. In denying all this, Anna recalled that a few days after the date of one stroke described by Writer Wold, her father had gone fishing and had landed a 235-lb. shark...
...Greene, who forced Cornwallis into his hopeless position at Yorktown, and "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the hero of Fallen Timbers. But it is Country Squire Jacob Brown, onetime secretary of Alexander Hamilton, whom Chronicler Pratt considers "the best battle captain in the history of the nation." Once, during a British attack at Buffalo in the War of 1812, Brown's Kentucky squirrel hunters (under General Gaines) emptied the first two boats so quickly that the others didn't even come in. Brown, says Pratt, had "some ineluctable secret of leadership that made green country boys fight like the devil...
...years after his death, Hawthorne was principally famous as the author of children's stories. Generations of schoolchildren read The Great Stone Face without appreciating the political allegory (and the attack on Whig Daniel Webster) that it contained...
...seemed to be thoroughly outclassed throughout the game. Their attack depended on a set on only average forwards and a better than average wing three-quarter, but these weapons were hardly enough to hold off the Rugby club. John Carey's forward play was picked as the outstanding feature of the Harvard attack...