Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world cartoonists, last week took a series of blows such as no President of the U. S. ever suffered and survived. The blows would not, of course, have fallen had Mr. Roosevelt not stuck his chin out farther than any President since Woodrow Wilson. He could have seen the attack coming had he not blinded himself to the meaning of the last Congressional election. Fighter that he is, it is doubtful that he would have withdrawn his chin even then. All during the first session of the 76th Congress he absorbed attack, going back for more on one issue after...
...neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...
...took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great days of the Herald his savage satires on British complacency won him fame if not money; his "Sentenced to Life" and "The Vampire" were reprinted far & wide. Opposed to the War, he nevertheless refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism; in 1920 he abandoned England and returned to Australia. Ten years later he exhibited a series of brilliantly bitter etchings in Manhattan (TIME, May 4, 1931). Last year he died, a bit too soon...
...would draw the Americans into the war within a week. . . . It is true that you have the Italians as allies. We had them last time and we know all about them. . . . It is your Führer, and not my old Prime Minister, who will give the signal to attack. . . . Perhaps you will recognize in time the abyss toward which you are being led. . . . Until next week, with best regards...
...professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...