Word: attacking
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...anti-front action so far, Britain's 150-member Council of Churches has issued a joint declaration warning that "our traditional ideas of tolerance and respect are being eroded." The Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference has put forth a similar statement. Church officials are now urging ministers to attack the front from the pulpit and to ask parishioners to sign an "affirmation" that "the racial policies and activities of the National Front, and other similar bodies, are contrary to the truth of the Gospel...
Among the most gifted of the newly rehabilitated writers is Lao She, a chronicler of pre-Communist China's lower classes who is best known in the West for his 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy. During the Cultural Revolution, Lao came under ferocious attack by the fanatical Red Guards. After a dutiful attempt to write proletarian poetry in accord with the party line of that chaotic period, Lao She told his wife he was leaving home in search of "a peaceful place." He walked to the nearby T'ai-p'ing (Great Peace) Lake in Peking, where...
...whales and dolphins such friendly and seemingly sensitive creatures, never known to attack a human being unless harpooned? It may be that echolocation, an adaptation to the eternal darkness of the ocean's depths, accounts for the unique personality of the whale. In echolocation, the whale projects high frequency sounds forwards. The sound waves bounce off objects, then return to the sound chamber in his forehead. He can tell the distance of the object by the strength of the returning sound wave. But these high frequency sound waves penetrate skin as well as water. Dr. John Sutphen, interested in diagnosing...
...reader in a trip through a circular system of rivers with McPhee and a four-member conservation study team. There is considerable talk about grizzlies, and whether or not one should carry a gun to avoid being eaten. The consensus is no. Guns are an unnecessary intrusion, bears rarely attack people in the wilderness anyway...
Captain Nancy Cooper came the closest to having her record blemished. In her fourth and final bout of the afternoon, she quickly went down 4-1 against MIT's Marion Stein. She came back to 4-2 by parrying a Stein attack then counter-attacking into the MIT fencers midsection. Cooper tied the bout at 4-4 with two touches below Stein's attempted parries in two seconds. She clinched the victory by beating Stein's blade downward and lunging forward to touch the unprotected stomach...