Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Crimson batting power, dormant Monday when the Elis took the first game of the series 2 to 1, burst forth with a total of 15 hits. John White and Benny Akillian led the attack with three hits apiece, with White's total including a three-run homer in the third...
This burly airplane the Douglas XA2D Skyshark, is a Navy attack on a pressing problem: how to fly modern bombers off carriers. Straight jets are difficult because they have little thrust on takeoff, and so find the flight deck cramped. Old style bombers (Piston engines and propellers) are not fast enough...
...bombs or fuel, the pilot can shut down one of the turbines and cruise at economically low speed. The Navy says that the Skyshark has "performance comparable with that of many operational jet fighters." Armed with rockets bombs, torpedoes, etc., it can support amphibious troops, as well as attack surface ships, may also turn out to be useful as a fighter escort for bombers...
...along with 20 other Westerners) for espionage and subversion. After dutifully filing a straight story to the Times on the charges (which he denied), Schmidt fled to the U.S. zone of Germany. That left only three regular Western correspondents in Prague, all of them exposed to the kind of attack that had forced able Reporter Schmidt to leave the country...
...heart attack. Sportsman Grey kept a swivel, deep-sea fishing chair on the upstairs porch of his Altadena, Calif, home. His daily practice with a weighted rod proved too great a strain on his heart...