Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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LONDON (Thursday)--A town in the western part of the heavily-bombed Midlands was under savage attack last night and early today by waves of Nazi bombers who swept upon it at two and three minute intervals and caused major damage and casualties...
...philosophy is on the defensive. It is confronted by systems which silence competent criticism by violence and make utopian promises to precisely that section of the population which is least qualified to assess such promises at their proper value. The leaders of these systems have joined in a concerted attack upon those European nations, great and small, which had realized an ideal of personal and political freedom comparable with our own. They have demonstrated their intention to treat subject nations as servile inferiors, and have not hidden their contempt for the democratic processes to which we adhere. Their ambitions...
...notify Tokye through diplomatic channels (without publicity) that an attack on Singapore or the Dutch Indies means...
...defensive Willetts' team looked much better. The Crimson wings covered their opposing wings and the defense men delivered enough body cheeks to keep Gayer out of trouble most of the time. A more efficient passing attack sharpened the team's offensive punch...
...closing Russell stated that above all we must have the intellectual courage to stick to our political, social, and economic ideals in the face of continual attack. "The alternative is a kind of cynicism and subtle adaptability which is ignoble," he commented. Those who refuse to change with political changes are often with political changes are often killed off, but these who man age to live through bad times are generally the worst," he concluded