Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Tennessee, which allows a person to pay the $1 poll tax for any member of his immediate family. Knoxville pastors and prominent citizens fancied up a new attack on the tax under a cynical, seasonal slogan: "Give a Poll Tax for Christmas...
...That Adolf Hitler last spring imported 30,000 gorillas from Brazil and these have now been trained in readiness to attack the Maginot Line...
...batteries, ground warning systems, in a single, centralized command. Hitherto these defensive functions have been scattered among Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, the Air Corps's General Headquarters Air Force. Now GHQ Air Force can be solely what it was intended to be-a powerful, offensive striking arm for attack on enemy centres...
...stroke of sanctioning a Nazi war and by the later strokes of becoming a partner of Adolf Hitler in aggression, Joseph Stalin threw out of the window Soviet Russia's meticulously fostered reputation of a peace-loving, treaty-abiding nation. By the ruthless attack on Finland, he not only sacrificed the good will of thousands of people the world over sympathetic to the ideals of Socialism, he matched himself with Adolf Hitler as the world's most hated...