Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skillfully crafted argument of Carter's Director of Management and Budget, as unveiled before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, was much stronger in its attack on the excesses of a few of his senatorial critics than in its often strained and flawed defense against the most serious charges. Those charges focused on his great and persistent overdrafts at Georgia's Calhoun National Bank, and his frequent use of the bank's plane for personal trips when he was the president or chairman, from 1963 to 1974. Lance went too far, mawkishly equating his plight with that...
Stung by Lance's attack, Ribicoff and Percy, who several weeks ago had championed his cause, stumbled onto the defensive. They claimed the Campbell allegation had somehow leaked to the Atlanta newspaper; they had not intended to talk to the press at all when they visited the President, but someone on his White House staff had told them they should meet the press waiting at the White House as they emerged from seeing Carter. They had only answered reporters' questions, they said, and had denied that Campbell had given the committee any affidavit, as the Atlanta paper reported...
...When the enemy is mad, keep still. When his fury has subsided, attack again." -Terrorist Siegfried Haag...
Needless to say, the pressure is on the Harvard defense to contain the UMass attack and give its new-faced offense as many chances as possible. Captain Steve Kaseta noted that "UMass thinks that we won't be up for the game because of Timmy's injury. They're wrong...
Last fall, the Harvard football team returned starters a five of the six offensive skill positions, but by the end of the season a potentially explosive attack had dwindled away to practically nothing...