Word: attack
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Annenberg got off to a poor start by choosing his first speech in London as the occasion for a blistering attack on student radicals back home. Since ambassadors do not normally attack fellow countrymen before foreign audiences, the British press sarcastically labeled the speech a "surprising public debut." To this sort of criticism, Annenberg has replied: "I'm used to swimming upstream." More recently, at a gathering held by the English-Speaking Union, he shook hands stiffly in the reception line but neglected to give a talk or mix with guests...
...fair treatment before the law. In one sense, the case is hardly unique. Thousands of defendants linger in U.S. jails awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail. Although the Eighth Amendment bans "excessive" amounts, poor suspects seldom have lawyers with the time and skill for a successful constitutional attack on high bail. And many judges use bail not just to assure that a defendant will show up at his trial, but also to keep suspects regarded as dangerous off the streets...
Died. Thelma, Lady Furness, 65, one of the "Magical Morgans," who with her identical twin Gloria captivated international society of the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Though no kin to the banking Morgans, they might just as well have been. Blessed with beauty and brains, Gloria became Gloria Vanderbilt, while Thelma married British Shipping Magnate Lord Furness. In 1934 she captured the heart of young Edward, Prince of Wales, whom she later introduced to a friend named Wallis Simpson with the remark: "Well, dear, look after him for me while I'm away...
...adopted by the Germans in their blitzkrieg through France; of a stroke; in Medmenham, England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart...
Jaime Gonzales faced Jerry Emmet, and dropped the march, 15-12, 15-8, 15-8. Gonzales had trouble adjusting to Emmer's left-handed attack. "I was deep into the third game before I got used to not playing toward his forehand shot." Gonzales said...