Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Japanese aviators bombed the city, sending over as many as 101 airplanes in one raid. The Japanese claimed to have destroyed the big Lanchow airdrome, and with it many Chinese planes. Chinese retorted that the Japanese aviators, as usual, had singled out only Lanchow's civilian population for attack...
...Sometime during the night Russians pushed up a patrol of 800 men ... to a hill 400 metres from my hut and the Finns' main supply road. Here the Russians set up machine-gun nests in a commanding position to attack. . . . One hundred Finns sneaked up on the Russian position and opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter...
...Harvard amendment, defeated 322-49, was as follows: "While the American Student Union has no sympathy for the Russian attack on Finland and specifically condemns it as a clear act of aggression, nevertheless it does not want to see out neutrality prejudiced by those acts we consider to be unneutral...
...resolution the A. S. U. came out for measures to protect American neutrality and to extend progressive legislation and protect civil liberties. On the civil liberties portion. Gottlieb said, there was almost no disagreement, but an attack on the Roosevelt administration for abandoning its broad social aims was proposed bitterly fought, and finally defeated...
...have to get at the foundation of a thing to be effective," he said, giving his reasons for choosing Lenin as the focus of his attack on Communism. In his view of the Finnish War. "Russia is a big boulder coming down on a pebble; but the pebble was able to slip aside, and now it is dynamiting the houlder...