Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...underlying motive to the President in refusing to consult Congress before ordering military incursions into Cambodia [July 13]. His answer, though unmistakably concise and logical, is dismissed as not "apt." A responsible Commander in Chief does not inform the enemy of the time and location of an impending attack. I think you will find that a decided majority of troops, officers and high commanders will bear me out on the efficacy and soundness of this policy...
...President's faux pas came in the middle of another attack on his frequent foe, the press. Nixon had just come from a ten-day working holiday in San Clemente, where he found himself angered by the coverage given the Manson case in the local media. Many of the young, Nixon said in Denver, "tend to glorify and to make heroes out of those who engage in criminal activities." Was it the fault of the press? Yes and no, said Nixon. Yes: "It is done perhaps because people want to read or see that kind of story." No: "This...
...Rapallo Conference of 1922, at which the Weimar Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union reached a rapprochement. More significant, the infamous (and short-lived) secret pact engineered by Molotov and Ribbentrop in 1939 was called a "nonaggression pact," but its main consequence was to allow Germany to attack Poland, thus plunging the world into...
...prestige of the judiciary." When Lambrakis was killed in Salonica, another deputy, George Tsarouhas, was brutally beaten. In 1968, Tsarouhas was arrested by the junta for subversive activities. On the way to police headquarters in Salonica, he died. According to the official police report, he had suffered a "heart attack...
Morse's own method of attack has been to arrange his book in alternating chapters devoted to periods of Stevens' life and to the poetry written during them. The chapters on the poetry trace the development of Stevens' artistic career. They are mostly interesting, competent, efficient; they provide some illuminating new readings, and the careful scholarship they display is impeccable. The biographical chapters, however, are ghastly: without color, without flair, without a wealth of detail, and worst, without passion...