Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Down the Barrel. At Quantico, the President-whose visit to the Marines was long overdue-saw a thunderous show. From a canvas-covered grandstand, he watched marines storm objectives with tanks, flame throwers, bazookas, phosphorous grenades and 500-m.p.h. bombing attacks. A Marine major kept up a breezy ringside commentary, improving the slower moments by hinting broadly, for the President to hear, that the Marines could do even better with more equipment. A simulated carrier attack by seven banana-shaped helicopters demonstrated how troops could land behind enemy forts and disgorge their equipment in 30 seconds...
...convention had been a triumph for 48-year-old Harold Mitchell, but it also had a terrible price. Exhausted, he returned to his home in West Hartford. Four days later he was found dead in his bathroom, of a heart attack...
...scared them anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife. "We'll sick the dog on them." Others just locked their doors and stayed inside. Raiders at the road blocks were warned...
...hearing of the Sullivan Bill, Harvard of all the colleges in the Commonwealth was singled out for special attack. Testimony of six witnesses and commentary from the legislators on the Education Committee combined to give the impression that the University was a hotbed of communism and revolutionary thought...
...principle object of McDermott's attack was J. Raymond Walsh, an instructor in Economics who had been active in labor relations work. This activity at the time made him suspect of communist leanings. A bill for repeal passed the General Court but was vetoed by Governor Hurley on the grounds that the era was not one for "withdrawing the authority of the state...