Word: attica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackness before dawn, the Greek ship Chimara, 1,800 tons and packed with 548 passengers, slogged through windblown seas. She was close to shore, off the eastern tip of the Attica peninsula. Her journey from Salonika to Piraeus (Athens' port) was to end in a few hours. But some of her 87 crewmen were restive. They knew the menace of floaters; some had protested against night voyages in these waters, which had been heavily sown with mines during...
City Ice has been able to meet emergencies because it is a consolidation of small companies in 26 states, Canada and Mexico. The parent company is headed by William J. Sinek, 67, a chunky, jittery businessman who plays polo for exercise. Sinek is the son of an Attica, Ohio slaughterhouse operator. When he was 13, Bill Sinek went into the construction business with $1,000 he had saved while cherry picking and newspaper peddling. At 19 he was making $6,000 a year and 30 years later had built such huge projects as Chicago's Soldier Field, Lincoln Fields...
...troops, who had been fighting day & night for two weeks straight, tumbled into ditches as the Nazi strafers made at them, then scrambled up to pot the advancing tanks or bayonet their way out of traps. As the forces fell back toward wedge-shaped Attica, it became evident that the bulk of them could get clear only if the rearguard made a magnificent stand. Sir Thomas decided that historic Thermopylae pass was the spot. He ordered the chosen few: "Every man must now do his job with strong determination. Select positions with care, and so prevent the enemy from coming...
CHARLOTTE BELL RANGER Attica...
That there are gonorrhea carriers, doctors have long known. Drs. Carpenter and Westphal found that sulfanilamide produced carriers when they examined over a thousand inmates of New York State's model Attica Prison. Of these, 392 had once had gonorrhea. All had been discharged by doctors as cured. When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci...