Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russell and Williams, each hitting for 14 points a game, and guard Jerry Scott, who has a very smooth walking on air move which has led him to his league leading 21-point average, make up the nucleus of the Rindge attack. They are joined by starters Ray Young and Weston Grainger...
...that federal habeas inquiries in state convictions should be limited to the question of whether the prisoner had a fair chance to raise his claim in state court. He further argued that there is now virtually no finality to any criminal adjudication, and the right of a prisoner to attack his conviction should extend only to matters bearing on his innocence...
...sadistic images that were basic to French surrealism: the Comte de Lautréamont and the Marquis de Sade did not preside over the house on Utopia Parkway. French surrealism was to a great extent defined by its indispensable enemy, French bourgeois Catholicism. Surrealism's whole mode of attack-the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation-was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe...
Died. Florence Ballard, 32, silky-voiced background singer of the original Supremes who recorded on eight of their gold records before she was dropped from the group in 1967; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Ballard fizzled when she tried a comeback as a single act in 1968, suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and spent most of her final years in pauperism. Looking back regretfully, she once said, "It was like being on a fast-moving train that suddenly stopped...
...before he resigned in protest against the Nazis in 1933; in London. Hungarian-born, Polanyi achieved distinction in early X-ray research. A voluntary exile from Hitler's Third Reich, Polanyi moved to England and turned to social science. In 1940 he published The Contempt of Freedom, an attack on Soviet intellectual authoritarianism. Later, Polanyi argued that natural science alone cannot account for "the fact of human greatness...