Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...unpaid, disgruntled Republican workers last week went a reassuring whisper from the offices of Mr. Cooke: the pot was being saved for the November attack on the New Deal, would be all the bigger then. After all, the nomination of bald, affable Mr. Cooke for U. S. Senator was a cinch (result: Cooke, around 650,000; Albert H. Ladner, of Philadelphia, about...
First Stab at Trondheim. The narrow, rutted roads were knee-deep in late-April slush. German bombers and attack ships roared low over the pinetops. From southeast of Steinkjer, smashing echoes rolled into the mountains from the guns of German destroyers and a pocket battleship (probably the Liitzow) bottled up in Beitstad Fjord, as the Germans moved them up to support their land forces...
...cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed. The sinking of the Gneisenau was claimed by the Norwegians in the confusion of the first attack. The British merely claimed that the Scharnhorst was damaged in an engagement with the Renown.) By omission, Admiral Raeder tacitly confirmed the loss of the Emden and four other light cruisers, the destruction of twelve destroyers, the torpedoing of the Admiral Scheer, the damaging of the Scharnhorst and loss...
...attack leveled at the heads of the History 1 instructors for "Anglophile" beliefs and teachings, the Student Union published yesterday a sheet of notes taken on History 1 lectures...
Published under the title "Giving Harvard the Needle," it charged that the instructors had "deified the British, glorified war, and deplored the American peace sentiment." Students of the course who were contacted yesterday concurred with what the H.S.U. had said in its attack...