Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...outraged when I trust so capable an artist to have him try to knock the intellectual sensitiveness out of me with a bang on the head-or the heart?-using his typewriter as instrument. I dare to say that Of Mice and Men is an illegitimate attack on the emotions, as are also parts of The Grapes of Wrath...
President: "The ending of this war does not yet clarify the inherent right of small nations to the maintenance of their integrity against attack by superior force." (Dorothy Thompson: "This column differs with the President. . . . The position of small nations in the world as it is at present is clarified. They have no position...
...105th day of vast Red Russia's hammering attack on little snowbound Finland opened as usual on all fronts last week. Soon after dawn, Red bombers appeared over interior cities, methodically dropping demolition where it would most damage communications and transport, incendiary charges where they would burn homes and civilian morale. Northeast of Lake Ladoga,* Red tanks and infantry tried to make headway where three of their divisions had been whittled to bits. As usual, they were driven back. At Taipale, Vuosalmi and along the Vuoksi in the centre of the Karelian Isthmus, tired Finnish defenders stood firm under...
...even under existing conditions, Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull should have been able to draw from the pork-barrel a better appointment than that of the present tobacco-minister to Canada. Doubtless they now regret their choice. For by his outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut...
Prennie Willetts, left wing play-maker on the second forward trio, was unanimously elected to succeed Captain Bill Coleman as leader of next winter's Varsity hockey attack, at a meeting of the team yesterday afternoon...