Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...worked in factories, traveled in trains. Civilized life then came to an end at No Man's Land, a civilized country was eaten away at the edges. But except at the edge its body remained almost untouched. Now the whole broad body of a civilized country was under attack...
General Papagos' tactics of 1940 are basically the Persian tactics at Thermopylae and his troops too have repeatedly taken the long, hard way around through the mountains to attack the Italians from behind and above...
...Varsity slaughter, every man except three out of the squad of 15 participated. Ed Buckley, with 15 points, and Bud Finegan with 14, were the top scorers of the evening. Kay led the Wesleyan attack with eight points...
...firmly opposed to involving this Nation in foreign war." The Democratic platform was equally explicit and unequivecal. "We will not participate in foreign wars," it declared, "and we will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside the Americas, except in case of attack." The presidential candidates in the ensuing campaign stood squarely upon their platforms, and the successful candidate repeatedly pledged himself to maintain the policy to which he was committed by the convention which renominated...
Nazi raiders returning to the attack after three days of respite forced by bad weather, also swept in simultaneously from several sides upon London but the attack was minor compared with the Midlands bombing...