Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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General de Gaulle's Free French troops and vessels opened fire on the town. During the night they tried several times to effect a landing on Rufisque beach across the bay, but each time machine-gun fire drove them back. The commander of the supporting British squadron threatened attack unless the town gave in. Governor General Pierre Boisson, who lost a leg fighting the Germans in 1917, signaled in reply: "France has confided Dakar to me, and I shall defend it to the end." British guns spoke. Their conversation touched the Governor General's house, the town radio...
...than Graziani. Even so, they were not spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis and South African volunteers, tough New Zealanders and wild Australians. Against them Graziani appeared to be committed to a frontal assault, while exposing his lengthening columns to attack from desert tanks on his right flank, the guns of the British Mediterranean Fleet on the left, mine traps below ground, planes overhead. "The tortoise has stuck his head out of the shell at last," gleefully confided one British officer. But not yet was desert-wise Graziani a tortoise floundering...
...went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he's doomed.' And when you asked: 'Then why doesn't he attack now?' they replied, with vast Gallic shrugs, 'Undoubtedly because he knows he's doomed anyway.' So, the stalemate on the western front was widely explained as 'Hitler's realization...
Except for two very costly lapses Coach "Chief" Boston's charges looked fairly well on the defense, a typical early season sign. Both Exeter touch-downs came as a result of long runs, as the Yardlings stifled the Red and Gray attack for most of the game...
Opening the third period the Freshmen made their only real drive and reached the Exeter 21 on a forward pass from Wayne Johnson to Steve Gifford. All attempts to advance further failed when the '44 running attack bogged down and the Exonians took the ball on downs...