Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plea failed. Last week, confined to a wheelchair by a heart attack, 53-year-old Herbert Burgman became the twelfth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason during World...
...Excellency the Governor, scanning the sunny skies over Hong Kong, rested his eyes on a reassuring spectacle. A squadron of Spitfires screamed down in mock attack over the blue-green waters of Victoria Harbor. Their target: an aircraft carrier lying at anchor amid a great clutter of cargo junks, sampans and merchant ships from all parts of the world. "If they know we're strong," said Sir Alexander Grantham, referring to Hong Kong's 1,800,000 Chinese, "they...
Aaron Copland's "An Outdoor Overture," while written expressly for amateur groups, still presents many of the complexities of meter and attack inherent in modern music. By all counts it was the most difficult piece on the program, the one in which the Orchestra ought most surely to have fallen down. Yet it emerged on top. All entrances were accurate and confident. The strings were together, really together, biting out their passages with a precision reminiscent of some Koussevitzky performances I have heard. The woodwinds were in tune with each other, and the brass was prominent but never blatant...
Shepard kept his charges going against the Techmen for more than two hours, trying out different combinations of players and stressing his co-ordinated, fast break attack...
Several of last year's fast freshmen figured importantly in Shepard's attack, with Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey cutting in frequently to set up plays or to take quick lay-ups. Other sophomores who should see a lot of court action are Jim Downey and Jim Stevenson, both of whom fit nicely with Shepard's fast ball philosophy...