Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...surprised no one to find crusading Paul Douglas leading the attack on the Dixiecrats' filibuster over civil rights. But his choices have often been harder than that, as when John Bricker slyly added an anti-segregation amendment to the housing bill. Torn between two causes he believes in, Douglas characteristically chose the immediate issue of housing and blasted the amendment for what it was: an attempt to kill the bill by rousing the Southerners against...
...been allowed to impeach a witness," Murphy pointed out. But Federal Judge Henry Goddard waved Murphy aside. Perhaps such testimony had never been admitted in a federal court but it had been in state courts, said the judge. So Dr. Binger was allowed to talk. He was there to attack the credibility of the Government's chief witness and Hiss's accuser, Whittaker Chambers...
...important contribution"-if I knew more about this subject I would attack the book...
...snowy owls do no harm, never attack human beings, live almost entirely on rodents. Unaccustomed to civilization, they blunder into odd places. Last week for the first time the owls invaded Washington, perched on Government buildings, and swooped down to feed on the bothersome starlings. Five of the interlopers landed at Detroit's Willow Run commercial airport, were shot from the ILS poles because airmen feared they would throw the electronic landing beam off its bearing. Dr. George Miksch Sutton, ornithologist and bird painter of the University of Michigan, who had predicted this year's invasion, says that...
...exactly one period last night at the Arena, a specially-conceived Harvard attack looked as if it might outclass Brown's hockey team; but then everything fell apart. The Bruina scored seven straight goals, took an 8 to 3 victory, and with it, most of the Crimson's hopes for a Pentagonal League championship...