Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Attack. First priority was to make sure that the U.S. was in a position to survive an initial, devastating attack against the nation's industrial centers, and that the J.C.S. recognized it as a job primarily for air power-Navy air as well as Air Force. The Soviet Union now has some 350 bombers modeled on the 6-29, which could reach almost any point in the U.S., drop their bombs, land on the nearest airfield and surrender. Neither the U.S. radar net nor the U.S.'s interceptor forces were adequate to stop them...
...taught him how to tie sailor's knots and to eat salt pork (anyone planning to follow the sea for a living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
Clement Attlee's new cabinet was scarcely 24 hours old before one of its members was under heavy attack from Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard and his morning Daily Express. The object of Beaverbrook's wrath was bright, balding John Strachey, 48, whom Attlee had just promoted from Minister of Food to Secretary of State for War. The Standard called Strachey "an avowed Communist [who] has never publicly retracted his belief in Communism." The attack touched an exposed nerve: the British public has been shocked by the laxity of military intelligence services disclosed by the espionage...
Hoping to minimize Yale's scoring with a close man-to-man defense. Wilson will also continue to use the double-pivot attack which the Crimson has employed all year. Captain Dick Lionette, the team's high scorers, and Jim Urdan, the two tallest men on the squad, will occupy the two "posts," Wilson said. Bud Lemay, Hansen, and Canepa complete the starting five...
Prosecutor Phinney spent much of the morning belittling Ford's medical experience and hinting that he had withheld some of Mrs. Borroto's remains from State experts. In answer to this last attack, the defense was forced to produce a three-foot vein from her exhumed body and show it to the jury during lunch recess...