Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half century preceding the Reformation, said Jordan, the public charity of the Church had become all but non-existent. When the attack on poverty came, he pointed out, it was not because of reaction to the increased poverty, but because new ideas had forced their way into the rising social classes...
John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 45, Premier Earl of England and Bearer of the White Wand at the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II, charged that in 1955, while he was recovering in an iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell...
...police station and tell on them." The bearded strongman, speaking at a gathering of commercial workers, suggested that barbers, beauticians, clerks, waiters and chauffeurs were in a particularly good position to turn in their customers. "Every servant," added Castro, "every employee of one of these rich men that attack the revolution, is a working and humble Cuban who defends the revolution and maintains his vigil." Two days later, to "hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook," Castro's Cabinet decreed that all property of convicted "counter-revolutionaries" will be seized-as broad a license for governmental stealing...
Every Day Counts. In 40 years of teaching, Morgan was never ill a single day. (He suffered a coronary attack two years ago, calmly lugged wet wash up from the basement while awaiting the doctor.) Friends know him as the sort of house guest who ends up painting the house before the weekend is over. When his telephone misbehaved, he spent days digging up the backyard to find a faulty line for the repair crew...
...success of Auxilium Latinum helps convince Editor Warsley, retired from teaching (by a heart attack) seven years ago, that Latin is not a dead language. "Our households and necessities and tastes have not changed much," he will tell a visitor to his home in West Topsham, Vt. "Did you know that Caesar's favorite breakfast was ham and eggs with a glass of milk?" Auxilium Latinum's 25,000 readers send in a steady stream of inquiries for just such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested...