Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telescoped from the Latin words avis, bird, and specere, to see. In ancient Rome the appearance and behavior of birds-whether they were eagles, vultures, owls, crows, or ravens, which direction they flew, how they ate grains of corn-determined whether public assemblies should be held, whether armies should attack, whether merchants should be bullish or bearish...
...Cumberland, engaged in confused and bitter slaughter. About noon, the English infantry broke through the French centre, obtained a foothold within the disorganized French lines, formed a hollow square against which French cavalry charged repeatedly in vain. When the English were nearly exhausted, de Saxe ordered a general attack and threw in his Irish reserves. Within ten minutes the English abandoned the position which had cost them the best part of their army to gain...
...swollen by refugees to an estimated 1,000,000, children were forbidden the frequently bombed beaches. A public subscription was started to send children inland to safe colonies. Twenty-five ambulances sent from abroad reached Valencia. Belgian Non-intervention Observer Paul Heemans was wounded in an air attack...
...himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under attack-indirect, subtle attack, if you please, but nevertheless an attack which will destroy these foundation stones of our liberty unless it is repulsed...
Died. Count László Széchényi, 59, one-time (1922-33) Hungarian Minister to the U. S., husband of Gladys Vanderbilt; of a heart attack; in a Budapest sanatorium...