Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...roads struck were the Pennsylvania west and north of Harrisburg, the New York Central west of Buffalo, the Southern, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, plus, at week's end, 100 miles of Santa Fe track in California used by the Union Pacific. By this kind of piecemeal attack, the firemen tangled up the nation's heartland without causing a national emergency that might have brought the President into the fight...
...July and August are the best months for an invasion of Formosa. During the rest of the year weather conditions, including typhoons, protect the island. This summer, then, may bring an event to which the U.S. has already officially resigned itself-the Communist conquest of Formosa. When the Reds attack, there will undoubtedly be a great clatter in the U.S., a sudden recognition that Formosa's fall may touch off a chain of reactions throughout Asia and change basically the U.S. position in the cold...
...than likely that rockets could be launched from submarines far below the surface. Such rockets rise vertically at first, are set on course to their targets by pre-set gyroscopic controls. They should not be bothered much by underwater launching. In World War III, the first sign of an attack on U.S. coastal cities could be a flight of rockets bursting at night out of an unruffled...
...undermine their self-reliance and their health. "The easy life corrupts them," he says. "It is sad to see such a noble race decline." To set a good example, he lived entirely on a diet of frozen fish for three years, something no white man had ever attempted. An attack of ague later forced him to vary the diet somewhat with flour-and-water biscuits...
Harvard: goal, Rosen man; defense, Martin (c), Sexton, and Huttenbauer; midfield, Linn, Huebsch, and Wood; attack, Hatch, Franklin, and Stewart...