Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Timothy Dwight's eleven rolled up a 13-0 victory over Adams to clinch the Harvard-Yale House championship on Friday afternoon. The Gold Coasters had banked heavily on their passing attack, and when Yale interceptions turned it into a boomerang, were forced to rely on their weaker running plays...
After smothering the Crimson pass attack, Yale took the offensive early in the first period, when fullback Ed Pope carried back a punt for twenty yards. Taking to the air themselves, the men in blue completed a series of passes which led to the two touchdowns...
Professor Leach outlined a four-point program which we should adopt as a result. 1. Send naval units to Singapore to prevent Japanese encroachment there; 2. Notify Japan that we will resist an attack on Singapore; 3. Declare an embargo on all Japanese imports and exports; and 4. Help China in every way possible...
...take the steps here outlined, the risk is that the Japanese naval forces may attack our naval forces. This may not happen; and if it does not, our objectives are attained. If it does happen, we are taking the risk that our naval forces may be defeated in the South China Sea by the Japanese. Let us attempt to calculate that risk, bearing in mind that if the chance of Japanese success is small enough, the attack will probably not be made...
...Boston parents, he enlisted with the Canadians in World War I, was twice gassed. He is the author of Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3, 1935), a superb war novel, in which three brave French soldiers were executed for "mutiny" after a sadistic general had ordered a hopeless attack...