Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...proof that the Post had pulled in on some fronts so it could attack on others, this week it started a fat new Sunday magazine called "Empire," the Post's name for its Rocky Mountain domain...
...teeth, he could find "no substantial changeover of the economy from its predominantly peacetime aspect." Moreover, Correspondent Salisbury, whose sources of information are rigidly restricted, was impressed by the fact that he had "heard of no Russian who in private ... or publicly" has suggested that the Soviet Union should attack...
Died. Edna St. Vincent Milky, 58, fragile, elf-eyed poet laureate of the Golden Twenties; of a heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock...
Died. Edward Joseph Kelly, 74, four-term mayor of Chicago, shrewdest of the four big Democratic city bosses of the last generation;* of a heart attack; in Chicago. Born in a tough "Back of the Yards" slum, roughhewn Ed Kelly was a master of the oratorical foot-in-the-mouth. He once addressed Admiral William Halsey as "Alderman Halsey," introduced the State Department's protocol expert as "chief of portico," lauded Scott Lucas (in a speech nominating him for Vice President of the U.S.) for being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts...
...Called into action immediately by Secretary General Trygve Lie, the U.N. Security Council adopted within 24 hours of the Korean attack a resolution...