Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should launch an unprovoked attack upon any country on earth . . . No military man before us recommended complete preparation for war. Nothing would please a potential enemy better than to have us bankrupt our country and destroy our economy by maintaining complete readiness for armed conflict." As it is, added Mahon, "This year we will appropriate...
Moscow pounced quickly on Cannon's remarks to prove to its own people that the U.S. planned an attack on Russia, and to tell Western Europeans that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could...
...conspiring since 1945 to teach and advocate the forcible overthrow of the U.S. Government-weighed too heavily upon him. The legal battle stretched interminably ahead. There was even a chance that he might achieve, finally, a kind of martyrdom. In a perilous sort of way, the Government's attack had given his Communist Party a new prestige at the moment when its light was the dimmest it had been in over two decades...
Died. Horace Brown, 72, New England landscape artist who campaigned vigorously for many years and finally helped get a bill passed in Vermont regulating roadside billboards which marred the beauty of the countryside; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...three starting attack players, Ned Yost, Pete Shaffer, and Bob Baldwin, each made one of the three Crimson tallies...