Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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About 70 miles southeast of Sicily (both sides agreed) the action began. This had always been a likely spot for an Italian hit-&-run attack, within easy range of the torpedo boats based at Syracuse. Heavy darkness and calm sea made it perfect. Fanning out ahead of the main British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto...
...attracted some 40 students: artists, sculptors, interior decorators, advertising designers, photographers, students of architecture and engineering. Lecturer: the Institute's director, husky, 30-year-old Keith Martin, onetime Harvard crewman and portrait painter. Purpose of the course: to explore ways & means of protecting vital industries, plants, stores from attack...
...curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop an attack was to lie down and go to sleep...
After that the Crimson attack slowed down to a minimum just as the Big Green boys began to show some real punch. A Dartmouth score on a lateral pass and a 30-yard run came in the third quarter, and the try for extra point was successful...
Harvard's final tally came late in the last stanza on Vander Eb's second filed goal. From then on the game evolved into a mad aerial attack by both teams. The Crimson threatened at the end of the game, but was enable to push it over...