Word: attacked
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...also turned conducting into a spectator sport, giving the role of conductor a panache that has not yet been surpassed. When he died last week of a heart attack during a morning nap at his farmhouse in an English village called Nether Wallop, a titan of music was gone, an era ended. At age 95, he had been expecting to go to London to make another album for Columbia Records...
Maria Callas died last week at 53 of a heart attack in Paris. She had been living privately and comfortably in retirement. Not since 1965 had she appeared on an opera stage, nor had she given a recital since 1974. But 16th arrondissement neighbors often heard her in her apartment, singing arias to herself...
Steinem told the 1,500 delegates that the movement is just one victim of the burgeoning radical right. "The efficiently organized opposition to the women's movement," she said, "is simply an early warning system of a total right-wing attack on civil rights, gun control, unions and social legislation...
...himself, for while his contemporaries died early, Lowell seemed to thrive on middle age. He too had been humbled by madness-an experience he documented in Life Studies (1959)-but had survived to become America's most distinguished contemporary poet. When Lowell died last week of a heart attack in a New York City taxi at the age of 60, he was enjoying the acclaim that greeted his last book...
Quarterback Kevin Burns could not muster much of an aerial attack against the Leopards (2-for-6, 35 yards), but the powerful Lion ground game slogged out 249 yards on 64 carries...