Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad the Crimson must face Saturday displayed an unexpectedly fine passing attack and a tremendous defense in holding the heavily favored Middies to a stand-off. A group of 1,900 Midshipmen, in Philadelphia for Penn's Junior Weekend and the Navy's first free period of the fall, staggered off to the post-game fraternity parties in a daze...
...within nine minutes after the U.S. cruiser Denver fired the first shot in the bombardment that prepared the way for MacArthur's amphibious attack, the Japanese naval command radioed: SHO1 OPERATION ALERT. Next morning came the order: EXECUTE. The Japanese fleets began converging on Leyte Gulf and the four mighty engagements that lay ahead...
Died. Cinemactor Errol (Captain Blood) Flynn, 50; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. A carefree hedonist who recently described himself as a man who had "seen everything twice," he was a sort of U.S. saloonfolk hero to movie fans who once made him one of the ten biggest box-office draws. Born in Tasmania, where his zoologist father, an Australian, was a lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Flynn, blessed with quicksilver wit and a steel physique, was a glass-jawed boxer with a good right, a global Jack-of-all-trades, and a freebooting South Sea sailor before...
Most discouraging for the Crimson, however, was that the rain, by putting a damper on Gundy's throwing arm, should have insured the predicted Crimson victory. The varsity was well aware of its own strong running attack and thought that the best chance for a Dartmouth win lay in Gundy's aerials...
...what Crimson supporters hoped would be a march to put the favorites into the lead, but with a succession of time consuming plays, the half ended with the Crimson on the Dartmouth 27. This, perhaps, was the one time when the rain should have been neglected and an air attack employed...