Word: assailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before election Republicans did not assail the Doctor's qualifications very loudly...
Thousands of shoe-shine urchins assail the unprotected individual in a wicked conspiracy to prevent him from going into Felix...
...scaling seemingly impregnable peaks all over the world. That the Alpine Eigerwand (wall of the ogre) resisted their perennial attacks piqued German mountaineers. One morning last fortnight a pair of Austrians named Harrer & Kastarek, equipped with provisions for five days, left the base of Mt. Eiger, began to assail the ogre that had swallowed nine daredevils since the summer of 1935. Next morning two Bavarians, Voerg & Heckmaier, followed the first pair...
...that whereas Europe, Asia and Africa can point to human pre cursors hundreds of thousands of years old, a U. S. find which is alleged to be even 20,000 years old is a sensation, and doughty irreconcilables like the Smithsonian Institution's Ales Hrdlicka stand ready to assail with sledgehammer blows the validity of even that recent dating. "It is to the everlasting credit of professional American anthropology that it has not succumbed to the itch for ancestors by giving recognition to the many dubious and spurious finds whose claims have too often received a facile acceptance abroad...
...begins with Cripure cruelly rebuffing one of his old students who, on the eve of leaving for the front, has come to him for advice and help. It carries him through his classes, where his students pull all their dirty tricks, through his drunken afternoon, when agonizing memories assail him, into the climactic, ridiculous night, when he finds himself challenged to a duel. Around him tragedies worse than his own are piling up. The headmaster's son has been shot; French troops have mutinied; there have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front...