Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been months in coming, and Ike's repeated recoveries from heart attacks and abdominal operations testified to his remarkable vigor. His mind remained undimmed until almost the final hour. A patient at Walter Reed Army Hospital since last May, shortly after his fourth heart attack, Eisenhower suffered three more attacks in June and August. Several times he was in critical condition, only to recover. Last week the bulletins took on a tone of finality. The old soldier's heart progressively weakened until, at week's end, it ceased beating. "His passing was peaceful," said...
...then as commander of all Allied troops, Eisenhower led the most awesome military machine the world had yet seen, eventually to number more than 4,000,000 men. Landing first in North Africa, his men stormed the beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast for the 6th?and Eisenhower made the most momentous decision...
...control. In the southeast, the Biafrans have 3,000 Nigerian soldiers encircled at Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson's visit, Nigerians launched a general attack in the north that carried them closer to Biafra's lone airstrip at Uli. Unless it is totally successful and quickly ends the war, the humane solution would be a truce...
Died. Leander Perez, 77, bedrock Louisiana reactionary, who battled the forces of progress and integration from his throne in oil-rich Plaquemines Parish for nearly 50 years; of a heart attack; at his plantation south of New Orleans. Perez became district attorney of Plaquemines Parish in 1924, and created one of the nation's most powerful political machines. Calling blacks "Congolese" and "burrheads," he gained nationwide notoriety for his bitter fights against school desegregation and Negro voter registration in Louisiana...
Well, Harvard is "a haven for rich Communist homosexuals who attack young virgins." Don't take that seriously folks, it's only a joke...