Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this long-accepted situation has been modified by events. War, if it comes, would now probably be set off by a Japanese attack on the Indies. This would move the scene of action some distance from Japanese as well as from U. S. bases. Such an attack would give the U. S. Britain and The Netherlands as allies, and provide the U. S. with the use of other bases-particularly the first-class British base at Singapore, secondarily the Dutch bases at Surabaya and Amboina, and the Australian base at Port Darwin...
...Rainbow Room. When "Jelly Roll'' Morton, famed Negro pianist, heard one of her records, he argued: "That couldn't be a white man playing, and it certainly couldn't be a woman.'' Boogie-woogie, with its classic repeated bass figures, its percussive attack, seemed to Miss Marlowe just right for the harpsichord. Radio listeners agreed...
Brennan's Judge Bean may not win the 1940 Academy Award, but it will give cinemaudiences a good idea why he is a director's actor. At 46, he is a World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...
...Harvard attack seemed to be hogging down when the purple squad with a first period score as a foundation were given two more in quick succession from the toes of John Gibson and Dave Fitzgerald respectively in the fourth. But with Williams knocking on the door to victory the Carrmen tightened their defense and checked further attempts by the enemy. Thus the game ended with Harvard avenged of their 3 to 2 defeat of last year...
...particular I would like to praise the work of Captain Joe Gardella in the backfield and Chub Peabody in the line. The lien rushed us on passes so that we couldn't get our aerial attack going," asserted the Michigan candidate for the back-of-the-year honors...