Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Famille. Even in Vientiane no one took this suggestion seriously-and Vientiane was all of Laos that Kongle controlled. Troops in Luangprabang were still loyal to Premier Somsanith. Each side was kept from having to attack the other by the fact that the road between Vientiane and Luangprabang was washed out by the monsoon. Most of the 28,000-man Laotian army scattered throughout the country either had not heard of the revolt at all or reacted with Laos' soft, favorite phrase, "be pen nyan [it doesn't matter]." To break this stalemate, Kongle suggested the formation...
...last column, his last fling around the floor. Last week, ten days after suffering the attack, Broadway Columnist Danton Walker died...
Then bedlam broke loose. A dozen detractors wanted the floor to attack Dr. Asian's work and condemn it as quackery. She had one defender, Manhattan's Dr. Osias Leon Friedman, who insisted disdainfully that the Brooklyn doctors had not been using the right kind of procaine. Dr. Gitman retorted angrily that before they began their test, his research team had tried to buy the drug from Dr. Asian herself, to be sure it was the same material, and she had turned them down cold...
...apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy...
...Thorstein Veblen, member of the Princeton University faculty from 1905 until 1932, when he joined the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was instrumental in selecting the famed research center's original mathematics staff, which included Albert Einstein and John von Neumann; of a heart attack; in Brooklin...