Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eliot's shut-out of Lowell evened its record at 1-1, while Lowell dropped to 0-2. Running back Marty Fitzpatrick led the Eliot attack...
...futility, to President Elias Sarkis' search for an end to the bloodshed. Since 1973, when clashes between Palestinian guerrillas and the Christian-dominated Lebanese army presaged a bloody civil war, at least 37,000 - and perhaps as many as 100,000 - people have been killed. Moreover, a new attack on its Christian friends could provoke Israel into massive retaliatory raids, threatening the peace talks with Egypt that began last week...
DIED. Goodloe E. Byron, 49, four-term Democratic Congressman from Maryland; of a heart attack, while running; in Washington County, Md. A veteran of six Boston Marathons, Byron collapsed while training for his eighth 50-mile John F. Kennedy Memorial Hike/Run. Byron was heavily favored to win re-election next month to the congressional seat once held by his father and later, his mother...
DIED. Ralph Metcalfe, 68, four-term black Congressman from Chicago's South Side and former champion sprinter who won a 1936 Olympic gold medal with Jesse Owens in the 400-meter relay; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A protege of Mayor Richard Daley's, Metcalfe broke with his mentor in 1972 after complaining of police brutality toward Chicago's blacks, but he continued to win re-election handily without machine support...
...parents' lives were unimaginably cruel. Plowing by hand, laboring in the fields from dawn until dusk, his father died of a heart attack in his early 30s. when Crews was not quite two. Not long afterward, his mother married his father's older brother Pascal. The result was catastrophic. Pascal drank, the couple quarreled, and after he discharged his shotgun six inches above his wife's head, she fled with her children to Jacksonville. A few months later, she returned to work the farm herself...