Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged by a business friend, he surprised Tarheel politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest crisis since Appomattox...
...Deux. Undaunted, Tito and Dame Margot a few days later assembled Nola, Elaine and a second shrimper, Mary Ann, to raise the sunken arms. As they brought up the boat, Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
Last week the attack continued in full cry. The Observer spoke worriedly of the President's "apparent incapacity for work or decision." Asked the Sunday Express: "Has the time come for Ike to step down? . . . What chance has the free world when its leadership is in the hands of a man who can hardly perform his day-to-day tasks? How can we expect President Eisenhower to hold his own against Mr. Khrushchev, healthy, exuberant, indefatigable...
What the British press missed in its effort to push Macmillan's leadership at Ike's expense: in recent months, President Eisenhower has been looking better, working harder and more effectively than at any time since his 1955 heart attack. And that fact was plain to anyone with open eyes, ears and mind...
PANAMA, April 30--National Guardsmen were ordered to move up to the town of Nombre de Dios today for the first full-scale attack on a band of Cuban-based invaders holed up inside. But they were called back to let a team of neutral observers get in first...