Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this war Lord Lothian explained the real prize is sea power, the issue "freedom or tyranny." Sometime next spring he expected the crisis-when the Germans would attack with "all the ferocity and ruthlessness the Nazis have taught us to expect...
...British Ambassador to the U. S. boldly predicted "a terrific attack by land, air and sea in which she [Germany] will use every weapon in her armory" (see p. 21). Premier Daladier conferred long and late with his generals last week. Britain's calling of 2,000,000 more men to the colors, and Winston Churchill's visit last week to Royal Air Force bases in France, were seen as steps to get ready for spring...
...Salla front, to protect themselves against surprise attacks, the Russians began to string barbed wire from tree to tree in front of their dugouts, hoping to entangle Finnish skiers, who usually attack at night...
Died. Guy W. (for Warren) Ballard, 60, onetime mining engineer, more recently (with his priestess wife) the "Accredited Messenger of the Ascended Masters of the Mighty I AM Presence" (a psycho-religious cult abjuring alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, onions, garlic); from a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Grey-haired, pink-tied, white-suited Messenger Ballard owned and drove, with Wife Edna and Son Donald, four high-priced, canary-yellow automobiles, one with a concert harp strung on behind, spreading through the U. S. the doctrine of I AMery...
Died. Ambrose Nevin Diehl, 63, able, steel-wise president (1932-39) of Columbia Steel Co., U. S. Steel's Pacific Coast branch; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif...