Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radio & TV, which get almost daily insults from some direction, last week suffered two open assaults and one cryptic, underground attack...
...vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed. It was barely ten hours since a heart attack had brought death to long-ailing, 75-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister of India...
...dazzled Kentuckians who watched Rupp's team win its 88th consecutive home game might well have missed Rupp's "definite" attack, but they were convinced they had watched the No. 1 team in the country...
Died. Max Reiter, 45, Jewish refugee, from Italian Fascism, who in 1938 left a successful career as conductor on the Continent (Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan), came to the U.S. with only $40, within five years shaped the San Antonio Symphony into a major orchestra; of a heart attack; in San Antonio...
Died. Peter Fraser, 66, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1940 to 1949, one of the leaders in taking New Zealand to socialism over the past 15 years; of a heart attack; in Wellington, New Zealand. Born a cobbler's son in Scotland, Fraser went to New Zealand at 26, rose from labor unionizing to Parliament to the cabinet. Dourly witty Teetotaler Fraser was admired even by his political enemies for bossing relief during the 1918 influenza plague, once selling his own furniture to aid the needy during the Depression, working for the welfare of New Zealand...