Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson coach John Yovicsin, attempting to bolster his offensive power, has made a major switch in the backfield. Sophomore quarterback Charlie Ravenel will start a game for the first time, a reward for the slickness and spirit he seemed to inject into the varsity attack in both the Cornell and Buffalo contests...
...broadening its base to include "middle class groups who are eager to attack imperialism and colonialism," Rudolph stated. This tactic, which has been called "Neo-Maoism," is particularly effective in underdeveloped countries" where the industrial labor force is small...
...Editor Grover Hall, for a hot scoop. The gubernatorial secret: although father of five by Jamelle (plus two by his late first wife, Sarah), sympathetic Big Jim gets morning sickness every time the lady of the house does. "Damn right," groaned he. Even liquor wouldn't cure this attack...
Died. R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar, 78, canny, litigious shipping tycoon, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ontario-born Dollar went to work at 17 for his father, succeeded him in 1931 as head of the family shipping empire, but was forced out in 1938 when Dollar Steamship Lines defaulted on a $7,500,000 federal loan. After the war, Dollar undertook a seven-year court fight with the U.S. Government for control of the ships, finally settled in 1952 for $9,000,000, half the proceeds from a public sale of the 17-vessel line...
...more apt to say peccavi without intending a pun. Vast numbers of well-meaning Americans are instantly ready to feel guilty and inadequate about their nation's role among the "underdeveloped" peoples. This book is a slashing, oversimplified, often silly and yet not-to-be-ignored attack on the men and women who have taken up the white man's burden for the U.S. in Southeast Asia...