Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been slipping into a morass of interrelated problems. One is the energy crisis, marked by its gas lines and soaring prices. One is the painful combination of inflation and economic stagnation. One is the widespread perception that Jimmy Carter has seemed unable to make a strong attack on either of the first...
DIED. Robert B. Woodward, 62, a Harvard professor for four decades who won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in organic synthesis; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. A child prodigy who experimented in his basement lab at home, Woodward entered M.I.T. at 16, got his B.S. at 19 and Ph.D. at 20. In 1937 he joined the Harvard faculty and in 1944 synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine, a project he had worked on since his teens. He then synthesized cholesterol, cortisone, several antibiotics and chlorophyll and, in 1972, vitamin B12, at that time the most...
...occupied places. They also destroyed the last national guard garrison in Matagalpa and closed in on Chinandega, one of two major cities in northern Nicaragua not controlled by the rebels. In a desperate attempt to break the Sandinista noose that was tightening around Managua, Somoza launched a major attack against Masaya, 20 miles south of the capital; the government offensive included heavy bombing and strafing as well as the deployment of hundreds of troops from the capital...
DIED. Conn McCreary, 58, racehorse trainer and jockey who won the Kentucky Derby aboard Pensive in 1944 and Count Turf in 1951; of a heart attack; in Ocala, Fla. The 4-ft. 8-in. McCreary won a reputation as a savvy, cool horseman during a 21-year career, and was elected to horse racing's Hall of Fame...
DIED. Joseph Borkin, 67, Washington attorney, economist and author; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase, Md. A trustbuster with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1938 to 1946, Borkin also pursued his commitment to social justice with such books as The Corrupt Judge (1962) and last year's The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, an expose of the German chemical company that provided Hitler's troops with poison...