Word: frontality
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...battle of deeper attrition than many in the West yet realized. The confusion in Russian leadership has weakened Communist ranks everywhere, given the opponents of Communism an opportunity for frontal attack. In East Germany the Red army is fully engaged in the task of suppressing rioting workers. Berlin newspapers were full of reports of violent uprisings in Poland, which many a U.S. newspaper headlined, though no responsible Allied source confirmed the reports. In Hungary an effort was being made to head off trouble by making sweeping changes in the regime (see below...
...fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...
...claws and fly away to eat it up. Gone is the viewer's sense of eavesdropping on activities that are, after all, going on in another room. In CinemaScope, the illusion in the other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms him with a frontal attack of enormous images and sounds. Audiences will be put, especially with the addition of stereophonic sound, somewhat in the position of Tennyson's lancers in the Light Brigade. They will have to ride unreasoning through volley and thunder into any old melodrama Hollywood cares to spread before them...
...Harvard Medical School and began seeking ways to relieve the human misery that cancer causes. Unlike many of his colleagues, who can do pure research with an eye to the far future, Dr. Huggins has never been able to sound dispassionate. His belief in the frontal attack-what he calls "cancer, research with one eye on the cancer of man" -has led him into more than one chase after rainbows, such as a universal blood test for cancer. But it has also led him, after a trying period of roundabout research into the function of the prostate gland in dogs...
...frontal assault is equally useless...