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Word: attacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Skip Stanley, who had anticipated a much better showing from his squad, found the defense slow in clearing the ball out of home territory, and the attack weak in breaking free for passes. To get a strong attack under way, Captain Hammond, who had not intended to play due to a bad nose, saw service most of the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Suffer Loss, 3-1, to Strong Stevens Ten; Yardlings Beaten | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Army and Navy went ahead with plans for a mock "attack" on the Atlantic seaboard by a large "raiding fleet," to be repelled by planes and submarines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Actions & Reactions | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...willing to give assurance that .your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Will to Peace | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...President told the Pan American Union and the world that the U. S. would defend all the Americas against foreign attack, urged the Dictators' peoples to throw over the Dictators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Actions & Reactions | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...seven days of swift diplomatic action, punctuated by movements of men and ships, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier: 1) committed their Governments to unqualified defense of Greece and Rumania in case of attack; 2) prepared to give a similar pledge to Turkey; 3) were able to report progress in bringing big, powerful Soviet Russia at least partly into their "Peace Front."* On the sidelines, Rumania and Poland (whose borders had already been guaranteed) doctored their own 18-year-old alliance against Russian aggression to include German aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Worst Week | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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