Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George B. Hutchison, professor of Epidemiology, said that after observing 649 men in Florida over a period of two years, he concluded that religion, occupation and even the use of cream and sugar are more likely to trigger a heart attack than coffee...
...response is unique to each individual. One person can live through years of bombing with no effect. In another case, something as trivial as the ringing of a bell provoked a fatal attack in a healthy young woman," Lown said...
...Faculty feels that honors degrees have been granted too easily for the past few years, as grade inflation has boosted gradepoint averages. But the pass-fail option was never under attack--at least, not explicitly so. The Faculty should reconsider the honors legislation to make non-graded courses neutral in honors calculations, so that students need not feel pressured to take an irrelevant gut where they once would have taken an interesting course pass-fail...
...three-man commission chosen to investigate the charges against Bernhard, who denies them, has made no report. Few would be surprised if the commission neither confirmed nor denied the allegations. After some initial restraint, the leftist press is hitting the Prince hard. The most venomous attack to date came last week from Communist Journalist Wim Klinkenberg, who charged that Bernhard had been a member of Hitler's SS. European gossip sheets have also been full of reports about his friendship with French Socialite Helene ("Poupette") Grinda, 32. There is no proof for any of these charges or innuendos...
...fields to turn the silt beneath less fragile clods and by planting soil-gripping crops, the farmers hope to conserve their valuable topsoil that otherwise may be swept away. Complicating the problem, unseasonably warm weather in some areas has produced an early infestation of cutworms and green bugs that attack the weakened plants...