Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, it is the realization of an Orwellian fantasy, a chilling page out of Nineteen Eighty-Four. To avoid the kind of terrorist attack that killed eleven Israelis in Munich four years ago, the Austrians constructed what they hope is a guerrilla-proof village. To the athletes checking in last week, initial impressions were unnerving: an 8-ft.-high chain-link fence surrounding the compound, electronically wired to set off an alarm at the slightest touch; a main gate guarded by submachine guns; and a gauntlet of identity checks by sentries, who bark at athletes, "Show me your pass." Says...
...Baukhage, 87, newsman and radio commentator who announced the start of World War II in a historic on-the-scene broadcast from Berlin in 1939, then on Dec. 7, 1941, aired the first live newscast from the White House with a marathon eight-hour report on the Pearl Harbor attack; in Washington, D.C. With "Baukhage talking" as his sign-on, the broadcaster was an NBC and ABC mainstay for two decades...
Again, when Moynihan attacked the reprehensible U.N. resolution terming Zionism a form of racism, his polemic was not directed at the consequences of the resolution for the continued existence of Israel, but the threat the resolution posed for the survival of "Western democratic principles." To read the actual text of his general assembly speech, one might think that Ben-Gurion, Rabin and Meir were less under attack by the resolution than Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau...
...offense attack faltered in the second half, as the hoopsters had reeled off only 11 in 11 minutes and slid to a 53-42 deficit...
...also very complex, requiring agression and patience, attack and watch-fulness, all in equal doses. A collection of Go proverbs exists that rivals a text of religious sayings: "There is death in the hane;" "Play at the head of two stones;" and 'The monkey's jump is worth eight points," for example...