Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Harvard must have its running attack rolling on all fours to set the Bruins back on their heels, and there is still considerable doubt as to the physical status of two of the main cogs in that offense. Harvard medicos have not yet given Captain Joe Gardella an okay for the game, and they have declined to pass on George Heiden's condition until tomorrow. In the meantime, Loren MacKinney has been moved into the blocking job, and Bill Brown is holding forth at fullback...
...could handle in the face of a full-dress Blitzkrieg. The only way to beat the Blitz, argued Wintringham, was for 4,000,000 civilians to teach themselves how to fight democratically, efficiently and freed of the myths and snobbery of military convention. The only way to meet total attack is total defense. Britain must fight now not to the last Frenchman, not to the last British soldier, but to the last courageous Briton...
Last week's "hybrid" was a development of the piloted torpedo of Pola. Reports indicated that the war head exploded harmlessly at the harbor entrance. The attack therefore failed. But it served notice on the British that their superiority in the Mediterranean will be challenged not by the wide-open sea battle every British manjack wants, but by Italian ingenuity...
...doubling fox, nor McCullough, nor Murphy, nor Bufalino, nor Schmuck, nor any of the other Big Red ball hawks who can not .only throw and catch but almost smell a pass coming their way. Cornell rolls because it is a coordinated machine with a beautifully balanced running and passing attack. "They are the most intelligent group of men I've ever coached," says Coach Carl Snavely of his team. "I give them seven new plays . . . yet the following day they have them down pat." But every football fan knows it takes more than intelligence to win 13 games...
...pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives as the small outpost of Mounties, cut to ribbons by a ruthless attack of the Indians and half-breeds, hears the bugle of the approaching reinforcements. Lynne Overman, a Scotsman, ambushed with the struggling men, barks: "That will...