Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...closest friends, the mayor of Independence, Missouri, passed away on Monday night very suddenly, from a heart attack. He and I were raised togther in our home town. He is five or six years younger than I am-or was ... I was most anxious to be present to pay my respects to his passing, but conditions were such in Washington that I had to stay here...
...conversation he had with Joe Stalin in 1944. Stalin was much interested in Churchill's account of Rudolf Hess's flight in 1941 from Germany to Britain, but Stalin plainly believed that it was somehow part of a British-German plot to get together in an attack on Russia. When Churchill insisted that he had told all he knew of the Hess flight, Stalin was still incredulous. Churchill huffed: "When I make a statement of facts within my knowledge, I expect it to be accepted." Stalin only grinned knowingly. "There are lots of things," he said, "that happen...
Some private farmers attack collectivism on economic grounds. One, whose opinion was confirmed to me from other sources, said: "Of course, no man will work collective land as well as his own land, however well he is paid. Come back here in the summer. Drive down a road bordered on one side by a zadruga, and on the other by private land. You will immedi ately know which is which. Just try and count the weeds on the collectivized land...
Died. Samuel Putnam, 57, author (Marguerite of Navarre, Marvelous Journey), translator, ex-Communist (he quit in 1944 after eight years of "misguided humility"); of a heart attack; in Lambertville, N.J. Translator of some 50 French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian works, he capped his career last year with an exemplary version of Don Quixote...
Died. Dr. Grace M. Fernald, 70, pioneer teacher of remedial reading, retired professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 27 years at the U.C.L.A. clinic school, Dr. Fernald taught thousands of "word-blind" children (i.e., those who have trouble summoning up a mental image) to read & write...