Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under attack for having accepted an $18,000 private expense fund raised by California supporters, Nixon, the G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate, went on TV to explain and ask for a public verdict. One contribution he would never give up, Nixon said, was his daughters' dog Checkers?hence the name given the speech...
...dawn, heavy artillery was roaring all along the Suez, and early that afternoon Israeli fighter-bombers thundered across the canal to attack antiaircraft batteries and several SAM missile sites. For three hours, the Israeli planes had the skies to themselves. Then, at dusk, Egyptian MIGs and Sukh017 fighter-bombers raked Israeli military installations along the canal and swooped some 60 miles into Israeli-held Sinai, in their deepest penetration since 1967. In the dogfights that developed, Israel claimed five Egyptian jets downed-and, for the first time since 1967, admitted losing a plane to enemy air action (Cairo...
...born transvestite" who wears "marvelous wigs and sleazy dresses," he continued, "would have been so great" as Myra Breckinridge. Before the angry authoress was out of bed next morning, she had lawyers on the phone discussing damage suits against Capote and NBC. As for why Capote chose to attack her, she told reporters that "poor vulnerable Truman" was probably miffed about an imitation of his high, lispy voice that she had done on a recent Joey Bishop Show...
George Ill's illness, say Macalpine and Hunter, reads "like a textbook case," His first severe attack occurred in 1788, when he was 50 years old, and lasted for seven months. Starting with acute abdominal pain, weakness of the limbs and the classic discolored urine, his symptoms progressed through insomnia, headache and restlessness to delirium, convulsions and stupor. Even after his condition improved, George suffered periods during which his doctors said "wrong ideas" took hold of him. In 1810, he became so ill that he was incapacitated for the rest of his life, and his son, as Prince Regent...
...Young Cameron, 86, matriarch of San Francisco high society, wealthy daughter of Michel H. de Young, co-founder of the San Francisco Chronicle, who for half a century was a notable patron of the arts, and a director of both the symphony and opera associations; of a heart attack; at Rose-court, her pink-stucco château in suburban Hillsborough...