Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...reply, the crowd hurled homemade fire bombs at the headquarters building and the nearby Gdansk railroad station. When firemen arrived to douse the flames, they were beaten back. Police opened fire on the demonstrators-only to turn anger into a terrible frenzy. Crying "Gestapo! Gestapo!" the marchers wheeled to attack the police...
Without hesitation, their faces screwed up in concentration, the pre-teen poets attack their papers. Soon anxious hands wave in the air -"Mr. Koch! Mr. Koch!"-as the children bid to have their work approved. Koch bounces to each raised hand, never failing to be delighted with what he discovers...
Died. Oscar Lewis, 55, noted University of Illinois anthropologist and author of The Children of Sánchez and La Vida, a collection of intimate portraits of Mexican and Puerto Rican slumdwellers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. His books were based on lengthy tape-recorded interviews that described as nothing else could people whose value system is almost totally a function of their poverty. Most controversial was La Vida, a shattering account of three generations of a family in the barrios of San Juan and New York, in which Lewis states his theory that poverty is an identifiable culture...
Nader's report has already come under attack from at least one industry spokesman. L. Malcolm Rodman, executive director of the Maryland Health Facilities Association, called the study "clandestine, superficial and haphazard." But the committee, which began its current investigations in January, seemed generally impressed by the testimony of Nader's young investigators. Senator Frank Moss, a Utah Democrat, is looking toward establishment of a corps of federal inspectors to see that the homes come up to standard. Moss also hopes to change the system of federal payments to reward those homes that provide high quality care...
...receiver on swing patterns and has great breakaway speed. In fact, he is also used on some kickoff returns. Worster is nicknamed King Kong, and the pros understand why: "He runs like a four-hundred-pound gorilla-crooked but with power." Working out of Texas' wish-bone-T attack, he is a punishing blocker who cracks into the line just as hard on a fake hand-off as when he is carrying the ball. Voted the Player of the Year in the Southwest Conference, he has averaged more than 5 yds. a carry over three seasons and scored...