Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians, De Carvalho and Linck hiked nine miles through thick jungle and at dusk hiked out again, preceded by a native guide armed with a flashlight and rifle. At the camp of a seismographic crew, they just missed a battle in which seven Indians were killed during a surprise attack on a geologist...
...close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time he was a very small child he wanted to be a lawyer...
...named in a congressional investigation as a former Communist. Cobb publicly denounced Communism, testified about other Red actors, and was given a meaty part in On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan, who had something of Cobb's history. Once again Lee Cobb was on top until a heart attack in 1955. Since then, he has regained his stature as Hollywood's No. 1 sin-ridden heavy. In I, Don Quixote, Actor Cobb, brilliantly backed by Eli Wallach and Colleen Dewhurst, put on a performance that was both poignant and terrifying but never out of control. His deeply felt...
...rubber puck driven at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. Result: pro goalies regularly contract what the trade calls "rubber shock" (defined by one player as "first cousin to shell shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones, some 150 stitches for assorted gashes, from sticks and skates as well as pucks...
Center forward Geue Scott will lead the rampaging Bulldog attack this afternoon. The speedy senior is Yale's leading scorer, and he can and will shoot from anywhere on the field. Right inside Johnny Pearce ranges all over the playing area in aggressive fashion, and his inside cohort John O'Keefe gives the Elis a flashy dribbler to loosen enemy defenses...