Word: assailants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fury Karana tracks the mongrel down and puts an arrow through him. But the brute, though deeply stricken, hangs onto life; and Karana, though rightfully revenged, begins by pitying and ends by nursing him. By the time he is well, she has come to love her enemy. Together they assail the seasons of their exile cheerfully, and make a life of what might otherwise have merely been a fate...
...President, whose mortarcade had already toured commencements at Michigan, Texas, the Coast Guard Academy and the Lyndon B. Johnson High School, stood under rain-dripping poplars on the campus of Swarthmore College near Philadelphia to assail the "phantom fears" that a strong Federal Government is a threat to individual liberty...
...will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights," he wrote. "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free-born American: political, civil and social; and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America. The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone, but for all true Americans...
...four candidates assail Collins substantially the same grounds. They disparage his claim to have lowered the tax rate by $96, pointing to a new sewer service charge and higher water rates. They ask the reduction of MTA fares along with the dismissal of general manager Thomas J. McLernon, whom Collins appointed. And they attack the mayor's urban-renewal program, which they describe as heartless and unrealistic...
...Negro elite known as the Niagara Movement (its first meeting was held near Niagara Falls in 1905). Declared Du Bois: "We claim for ourselves every right that belongs to a freeborn American-political, civil and social-and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America with...