Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised a sawed-off shotgun, fired wildly. Thinking the noise to be a motor backfiring, the Duchess drove on. Policemen, summoned by a motorist, found the man sitting on the pavement beside his shotgun and a racing bicycle on which he had arrived. As all London buzzed with the attack on the popular, pretty Duchess, wife of the youngest brother of Britain's King George VI, Scotland Yard announced that its prisoner had just arrived in London from Australia, where the Duke of Kent is to go next fall as Governor General...
...hence to defeat communism capitalism must be overthrown. Author Gunther also picked up a warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well as individual scale: the more inextricably Japan becomes involved in China the more likely it is that Japan will deliberately attack a stronger enemy and go down blazingly to defeat in a first-class...
German aircraft plants are, unlike the British, well-camouflaged, frequently set down in evergreen forests. Duplicate facilties for German plane manufacture exist underground. When a bombing attack threatens, movable machinery from the surface plants can be lowered by elevator into the underground and hooked up to duplicate heavy machinery that is already in place...
...report which was moderate in tone, the principal points being that there should be greater emphasis placed on the teaching of art history as one of the humanities and less overconcentrating in the field. The Crimson has turned what was intended as constructive criticism into an hysterical and destructive attack...
...these grounds the Crimson felt justified in making "an hysterical and destructive attack...