Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Alleged battle orders, found on captured British officers, directing a battalion of the Sherwood Foresters to attack at harbors "512," "547" and "548" and take the Sola airport. The orders were dated April 7, two days before the German invasion...
Died. John Crawford Anderson, 76, Chief Justice of Alabama; of a heart attack; in Montgomery, Ala. Lone dissenter on the Alabama Supreme Court in the Scottsboro Case, he doubted that the defendants had received a fair trial...
...week. Promoters, matchmakers, managers, trainers, seconds and the miscellaneous collection of has-beens and hangers-on who make a daily appearance at pugilism's trading post, shook their heads, dumfounded. For "Yussel the Muscle." their most picturesque colleague, and only 43 years old. had died of a heart attack the night before...
...Francisco rotund Alexander Woollcott, playing in The Man Who Came to Dinner, dined with friends, on snails with French dressing, rice balls, bisque of clam, baby squid with sauce a la Genoise, saddle of lamb, fondue of truffles, cress salad. Result: he got a heart attack, was put to bed and the show had to close...
...plausible explanation of how the sun converts hydrogen into radiant energy, and so keeps on shining (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939). At temperatures above 15,000,000° C. (the sun's internal temperature is calculated at 20,000,000° C.), Dr. Bethe found that hydrogen atoms would attack carbon. The carbon would be transmitted into other forms, but after a series of six separate atomic conversions, it would reappear, while hydrogen atoms (of which the sun has enough to last some 12,000,000,000 years) would be consumed, leaving helium as ash. One cycle would take about...