Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Before that can be done, American divisions must come over here to strengthen the Western German feeling of security. How can you give people a purpose when they know that if the Soviets attack, they'll be on the Rhine in no time? Even if everyone took up a knife or club, there would be no stopping them. The people have to know there is at least a chance...
Luther soon went on to attack the institution of the papacy, the role of celibacy in the clergy, the number of the sacraments; before long he had assailed most of the major tenets in the structure of Roman Catholicism. More to the point, all Germany soon knew, by pamphletc that poured from the newly invented printing press, what Luther had done-and thousands of Germans approved...
...virus's appetite for nucleoproteins suggested an explanation of the oft-reported link between physical fatigue and the severity of a polio attack, said Dr. Melnick. The nucleoproteins are believed to be reduced by extreme fatigue. Therefore, if the polio virus attacks an exhausted person, the supply of nucleoproteins will be at a minimum and the virus will soon consume it, causing the death of the nerve cells. But if the infected person is well rested and has an abundant store of nucleoproteins in his nerve cells, the virus may be able to satisfy its own needs without destroying...
...Dyer was named head of PHS's National Institutes of Health. The Institutes' research work into the causes and cure of disease (from the common cold to rare tropical fevers) was feverishly expanded for war medicine. Since the war, new research groups have been added to attack mental and heart diseases and cancer. Dr. Dyer was too busy at his desk to do any lab work. Instead, he made a name for himself (and won a 1948 Lasker Award) fof his imagination and judgment in doling out millions of Government dollars for thousands of medical research projects...
Died. Sigmund Gale, 77, who in 1926 founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...