Word: attacks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ballistic missiles by exploding nuclear warheads high above the earth? Could the Soviet Union use high-up explosions to cheat on a test-ban agreement? How much would high-up nuclear explosions disturb radio communications and the radar detection that is indispensable to U.S. defenses against bomber or missile attack...
...rule of law was involved; his bloody vengeance was fully justified. The trouble was the way "enemies" used it to "slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista's Pinar del Rio Urgency Tribunal...
...from right to left, but when the hero was winning, he was naturally headed right (with his pistol hand closest to the camera). Anybody shot was assumed dead, unless the audience was notified to the contrary. The stock situations had also been worked out-the stage robbery, the Indian attack, the big stampede, the necktie party, the chair-throwing brawl in the barroom-and in the subtitles, the dialogue had been perfected: "We'll head 'em off at the pass...
...parade's end, a snowball hit a motorcycle cop who had been holding back crowds by gunning his tricycle back and forth. Almost everyone managed to be wrongheaded about what followed. The national vice president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians nonsensically protested that the disturbance was an attack on Roman Catholicism; Yale students howled that it was hobnailed police brutality; and Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold charged it to "childishness" and "boorishness" on the part of students, made an apology to townspeople that most undergraduates thought was too abject...
Died. Lester Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history of jazz, Mississippi-born alumnus of the Count Basie band; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young became known as "The President" for his superiority in his field. His early influence helped...