Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...This is distinctly not an attack upon U.C.L.A. nor upon its officials," Wall said in the petition, "but is distinctly an attack upon the works and teachings of Professor Russell, such as 'Education and the Good Life,' 'Proposed Roads to Freedom,' 'What I Believe,' and 'Education and the Modern World...
...other hand, taking The Netherlands Empire itself would at one stroke accomplish Japan's New Order. Instead of cowering before the threat of an oil embargo, she could herself threaten a rubber and tin embargo against the U. S. She would possess islands from which she could conveniently attack Singapore. She would be able to snip off Hong Kong, Indo-China, the Philippines from the Western World...
...Quick to attack this figure was jib-nosed John Jeremiah Pelley, president of A.A.R. Testifying before TNEC next day, he called Analyst Eastman's road-cost allocation an "astonishing assumption," defended "home owners, farmers and others who pay general taxes" against the implicit charge of paying less than their share. A.A.R.'s own conclusion: that vehicle owners should pay 75% of all road costs, Government the rest. Eastman's: "Their [the railroads'] contentions impress me as being carried to extreme limits." But Railroader Pelley also reminded his hearers why railroad and truck taxes cannot, should...
...between that time and the present are not neglected by Mr. Adams. Napoleon was blocked at the English Channel as Hitler is blocked at the Maginot line, and Napoleon forced Spain into the war to get a base for invading England. The French and Spanish fleets then feinted an attack on the West Indies to draw Nelson's fleet from the Channel. That this elaborate trick did not succeed was Nelson's glory: he guessed it, doubled back, saved Britain at Trafalgar...
...pioneer tells of striking into the Indian-haunted plains west of Missouri immediately after a troop of soldiers has been massacred. Led by a 23-year-old lieutenant who understands Indian "deviousness," the party forestalls a night attack by winking bull's-eye lanterns around their camp, concludes a treaty with the Indians by promising to conjure no more stars down from heaven...