Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the caution was that U.S. installations and personnel remain vulnerable to mob attack, as was demonstrated so visibly once again last week in Libya. Spurred on by pro-Khomeini slogans from sound trucks, 2,000 demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. While all 15 Americans escaped through a side exit, the crowd set fires that heavily damaged the embassy's first floor. The U.S. has rejected Libya's apology as inadequate, and suspended embassy operations-a step just short of breaking diplomatic relations. The State Department complained that the Libyan government had ignored repeated American...
...confrontational nature of recent history has developed in some individuals on the left (and the right) an appetite for self-righteous hatred and self-dramatizing "unmaskings." In these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack to see if it is warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone...
With a plea to "work the ball around more," Kleinfelder sat back to watch her team play inspired ball. Junior Stacia McMahon, in her first start of the season, rose to the occasion, leading the Crimson attack with good, aggressive scoring drives and a game-high 12 points. Freshman Marget Long, meanwhile, grabbed nine rebounds...
DIED. Jerome Cavanagh, 51, Detroit's mayor from 1962 to 1970; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. Cavanagh rose to national prominence as an early champion of federal aid for decaying urban centers, but his political fortunes collapsed in the wake of his city's 1967 race riots...
...aggressive Bruin defense silenced most of the Crimson firepower, but three novice goalscorers triggered the red light to lead the Harvard attack. Bobby Fowkes, Greg Britz and Graham Carter, all scoring their first goals of the campaign, supplemented Mark Fusco's first-period tally to provide the icemen with a 4-2 lead 12 minutes into the final period...