Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...little park at the crest of Chungking hill-where one bloody day last May 200 Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever...
TORONTO, Ont. Feb. 22--Flashing the vaunted attack that has turned the International League hockey race into a runaway, the undefeated Toronto University sextet chalked up its seventh straight league win tonight at the expense of a fighting but outclassed Harvard team...
According to the standings, however, Columbia, in fourth place in the League, is the favorite. Headed by little Albie Myers, always a potential scoring threat, the New Yorkers will present an attack that is much like Harvard's in its dependence on speed and trickery rather than height...
Died. Father John William Rockfort Maguire, C. S. V., 57, labor mediator and onetime president of St. Viator College; of a heart attack; in Miami, Fla. Union-wise, unostentatious, Ireland-born Father Maguire settled some 86 strikes in 25 years, was termed by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins "the best trouble shooter Labor...
...Africa, hunted in Canada, Asia, Alaska, captained an Olympic shooting team, flew his own plane, was thrice married, twice divorced, sired four sons and a daughter. Still in the money but no longer an active publisher, he was vacationing in Hollywood last week when he suffered a heart attack, and Death, as it must to every man, came to Captain Billy...