Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...20th Century-Fox epic of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tora! Tora! Tora! [Oct. 5]: T'll make you a little bet that the original cast pulled off the attack for a lot less than $25 million. Oh well, you can't win them...
...been waged in one guise or another since the days of the French. In the 1950s there was the abortive agroville program of agricultural resettlement. In the early 1960s came the U.S. concept of "strategic hamlets," which were meant to fortify rural areas to protect peasants from Communist attack. By 1966 President Johnson was referring to pacification as "the other war," or "the struggle to win the hearts and minds of the people." Whatever its name, the object of pacification for nearly two decades has been to wrest rural areas from Viet Cong control and bring them under the aegis...
...Orioles were standing idly by. Baltimore's Big Three-Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became the first pitcher in Series history to hit a grand-slam...
Though the Orioles were not wanting for heroes, they agreed to a man that Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was the spark that ignited their attack-just as he has for most of his seasons at Baltimore. Son of a Little Rock fireman, Brooks was a star quarterback in high school who selected baseball over football and, ironically, the Orioles over the Reds, the one other team that was negotiating for him. Signed for a paltry $4,000 at 18, he was so impressive that Umpire Ed Burley remarked after one game: "Robinson plays third like he came down from...
Also, the Crimson took advantage of the offensive strength of the 4-4-2. Outside fullbacks John Gordon and Bill Brock moved up to midfield frequently to assist the attack, and halfbacks Norrie Harrower, Emmanuel Ekkama and Rick Scott each joined the front line as the Datmouth defense sagged...