Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Iron Hand. In sharp contrast, Acheson then staked out a second Asian area in tougher language. The nation's defense, said he, rests on a North Pacific frontier running along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...
...wife he "felt pretty good." A few minutes later, his wife said, he "sat down on the bed and collapsed." By the time the local doctor arrived, Hap Arnold, 63, was dead. Said Dr. Russel V. Lee: "He should have quit during the war when he had his first attack [in 1944]. But things were hot then and he decided to take his chances with the rest of the soldiers and went back to duty...
...share the Western illusion that one can dispense with bayonets provided there is a promise of bread . . . The first assurance that the Commonwealth needs to give not only to its own Asian partners but to the newly formed independent Asian nations is of assistance against violent internal or external attack...
Williams was never able to mount much of an attack. Sloppy puck handling and lack of speed undermined the Ephmen, who depended largely on single rushes. Harvard continued to display the poor defensive covering that characterized its play in previous games, but Williams was just incapable of capitalizing on its opportunities...
...second period, for instance, Williams was two men short for two minutes, but Harvard failed to score. To be sure, this was partly because of superb work by Williams' goalie and captain David Pynchon, but it was also partly because of the Crimson's failure to organize its attack...