Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Larry Goldsborough led the Ithacans'' fast-break attack, scoring four first-half baskets with his one-hand jump shot. six-foot-four inch Fred Eydt also did some clever outside shooting, but the man who saved Cornell's victory was Gerwin, who sank eight out of ten foul shots...
...loaded with speedsters and six foot pivot men. Hilary Chollet and Paul Lansaw, last year's high scorers, are missing from the Cornell lineup this season, but Greene has replaced them with a couple of six foot four sophomores, Fred Eydt and John Werner, Key man in Greene's attack is center Walt Ashbaugh, one of the fastest men in the EIBL...
...President did say "always." But then, that was more than three years ago. For the past two months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
...last week, except for a stiff neck, Alina had almost completely recovered. Physicians attributed her deathlike state to a severe attack of malaria. Her awakening, they guessed, might have been caused by the noise and motion of the funeral. For the stiff neck they had an even simpler explanation: her coffin had been too short...
Vast Doublecross. Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's most serious attack on the modern superstate, but he had made others. In 1946 had come Animal Farm, a merciless satire on the Soviet regime that was as enlightening as it was hilarious, as persuasive as it was just. Even now, with reams of confessions by disillusioned revolutionists in the record, Animal Farm (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946) remains the best manual on the doublecross of Stalinism...