Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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They told them: how they had once wanted to attack the German prize crew which boarded their ship and forced them to sail her north to Murmansk; how Captain Joseph A. Gainard, lean, softspoken, restrained them; that the Nazi crew were "damned good sailors" but ate themselves stupid on U. S. cooking; how in Murmansk they had seen the liners Bremen, New York, St. Louis, Hamburg...
...Seven Years War (1756-63), rushing his forces first to one front, then to another, by forced marches, repeatedly attacking when he was fearsomely outnumbered, following defeats with raids and sorties yet more daring, he beat back the enemies that ringed him, traded them death for death until 500,000 men had died on both sides and he had only 60,000 men left. Then Elisabeth of Russia died, and her son, Peter III, made peace, returning Pomerania to Prussia. That made the Swedes withdraw. France, bled white by England's attack on her colonies, retreated beyond the Rhine...
...exists was to sweeten the defensive alliance which Nazi Ambassador Franz von Papen failed to prevent last autumn, and $100,000,000 of it is to be spent exclusively on Turkey's Army. That Army does not by the terms of the Allied treaty with Turkey have to attack Russia, but it stands ready to defend its country against Russian invasion...
Object of the adoption would be to provide airplanes and anti-aircraft guns. President Kallio was ready to promise that the planes would not operate beyond Finnish borders or against planes or troops engaged in genuine military operations. Said he: "Every attack in which Finns shoot down Russian planes strengthens Finnish sisu...
Died. Major General Omar Bundy, U. S. A., 78, much-decorated veteran of 40 years of campaigning (Sioux Indians, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, World War I-in which, to a French order to retire at Chteau-Thierry, he replied: "We are going to counter-attack." and did); after a two-year illness; in Washington...