Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...repeat again that I stand on the plat form of our party: 'We will not partici pate in foreign wars and we will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas ex cept in case of attack.' "It is for peace I have labored; and it is for peace I shall labor all the days of my life." But most of the speech was on domestic issues, and here the old campaigner really went to town. He was sarcastic, sly, arch, tough, ironic, intimate, confidential. He ad libbed...
...third game of the afternoon, Eliot edged out Kirkland 7-6, in one of the closest battles of the series. Eliot concentrated her attack into the second quarter, when she invaded the Deacons' territory for the only time in the game. A series of short passes brought the ball down to the 10-yard line, where a Lloyd-to-Snyder forward sent it over. Brud made the conversion...
Gallstones are common in middle-aged gall bladders, attack three or four women to every man. Some people can live comfortably with them for years, but if the stones slip into the gall-bladder ducts and cork them up, they cause excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach, the breastbone, or the right side of the back...
Died. Matthew ("Matt") Chauncey Brush, 63, retired (1933) head of American International Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Among present-day Wall Streeters, handsome, bushy-haired Matt Brush symbolized the bygone Terrific Twenties. A born speculator, Brush went east from Kansas to make a fortune. His financial strategy first made him director of the dilapidated Boston "L"; some 50 other companies by 1929. During World War I he managed the great Hog Island Shipyard. A confirmed bachelor until 56, he then married his 33-year-old secretary. His hobby: collecting 2,000 model elephants, some as big as dogs...
Close to 500 local voters gathered at the school auditorium last night to hear Professor Hermen's attack against P. R. as "the best life insurance for machine voting that any one ever invented," and as "an ineffective instrument of majority rule...