Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson courtmen are not only rather inexperienced, but also they will be forced to enter every game under a height disadvantage. In order to offset this deficiency Wes Fesler has been drilling the squad on a fast breaking attack for the past few days...
...intended to be an unmistakable warning aimed squarely at the totalitarian States of Europe. Chief critic of the original version was Argentina. Always a strong advocate of solidarity, Argentina, dependent upon German and Italian purchases for a sizable amount of her trade, objected to such an outspoken attack on her totalitarian customers. Mr. Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival of Argentina, balked at accepting the leadership...
...began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that water froze in the cooling jackets of machine guns. A second, lighter attack, believed to be merely a diversion, took place in the flatter country near the Segre River...
Died. Robert Herrick, 70, veteran novelist of departed social issues (The Memoirs of an American Citizen, Together, The Master of the Inn), onetime (1905-23) professor of English at the University of Chicago, Government secretary of the Virgin Islands since 1935; of a heart attack; in Charlotte Amalie...
...value: that Greville, a shrewd and accurate reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those with direct political repercussions...