Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told to do everything possible to sow dissension within the Klan. Rowe said of Klan families: "I was told to sleep with as many wives as I could, to break up marriages." (He slept with some.) He claimed that he warned the FBI that the Klan planned to attack Freedom Riders in Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 and that the FBI did nothing to stop the beatings...
...usually advertises its willingness to buy stock in another firm at a price well above current market value though commonly below the stock's book value, or proportionate share of the company's net worth. The aggressor usually gives no warning; the management of a company under attack often learns about the tender offer only by reading the newspaper ads the same day stockholders...
Died. Wendell Phillips, 54, flamboyant archaeologist-oil baron who headed the Wendell Phillips Oil Company; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. A onetime newspaper boy who studied paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, Phillips accumulated a fortune estimated at $120 million. By his own account, his rise began when he visited Oman in 1952 on an archaeological expedition. There, said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area...
Died. Hannah Arendt, 69, brilliant political philosopher, cultural historian (The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition) and analyst of 20th century malaise; of an apparent heart attack while entertaining friends; in Manhattan. Born in Hannover, Germany, Arendt took her doctorate in philosophy at Heidelberg, studying under Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, before fleeing the Nazis in 1933 in the first great wave of Jewish emigration. After working with Zionist organizations in France and the U.S., Arendt broke with the movement and devoted herself to political study. It was her thesis (in Eichmann in Jerusalem) that the century's worst...
Finally, the Crimson hoopsters started to work together and press on defense, shutting down the Brandeis attack in the final minutes of the game...