Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...calling off the names of local candidates. He usually had a list in his hand, and read from it. In California, where Jimmy Roosevelt is running uphill against popular Republican Governor Earl Warren, Barkley acknowledged his "great respect" for Warren and said that he did not intend to attack him. The best he could do for Jimmy was to call attention to his background "and the fact that he was overwhelmingly nominated as the candidate of his party...
...more difficult." The bombing, says Clark, was ordered only on the insistence of Lieut. General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the New Zealand Corps, that it was a military necessity. After the bombing of the Abbey and the surrounding slopes, Clark says, Freyberg's forces failed to attack quickly enough to exploit the Nazis' temporary confusion...
...Clark defends his order of the bloody and abortive attack by the 36th Division across the Rapido below Cassino. It was necessary to draw German defenders away from the projected Anzio landing. The casualties were not 2,900, as the indignant 36th claimed, but 1,681. "If I am to be accused of something, thank God I am accused of attacking instead of retreating...
...under fire for hours at a time. Air and artillery support could not take all the burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough work, rougher than we expected. We had hoped to be 25 miles into North Korea by this time...
Bill Klorstcad, who passed for three touchdowns against Leicester, will quarterback the Crimson unbalanced T attack. Lou Tsavaris, injured in the game, will be back in fast action at left half, and Art French and Bob Kendall complete the starting backfield...