Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes after the fall of the puck neither sextet could gain the upper hand. Presently Terrier scoring bids began to rattle off Morrill's stick and pads as Nelson, Gregory, Viano and Lawless made repeated sallies on the Crimson net. The Harvard guardian bore the brunt of this assault alone, and his great work in front of the cage staved off what appeared certain defeat for Coach Bigelow...
...opening of the second stanza, Chase broke through the opposing defense, but both his scoring bid and the rebound shot were stopped by Silverberg. Gibson was sent to the penalty box for crosschecking, and the Crimson launched a fierce assault on the weakened Terrier line. A lightning bit of passwork, Clark to Hamlen to Clark nearly netted a counter for Harvard, but Gregory, breaking up another passing game between Scott and Durant, carried the puck the entire length of the rink, but his hard shot caromed off Morrill's skate. Late in the period the Crimson skaters consistently pierced...
...pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery. "I've skinned one skunk," he said, "and now I'll skin another." Last week a jury gave Edward...
...killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded by Lieutenant Rouzier were then sentenced respectively to two years and two months of imprisonment for threatening to assault him with their canes before he fired upon them. Four other Germans were also sentenced; but the French Lieutenant went scot free...
...bottle, a broom, were the tokens of a disagreement. Philosopher Carson, having confessed, was put under $10,000 bail (TIME, Nov. 1). ... Last week the two philosophers came to court with their lawyers. Said Lawyer Levy to the Court: "My client does not desire to press the complaint, [felonious assault] and he asks your permission to have it withdrawn." "What had they been drinking?" asked the magistrate. "The usual stuff." "Will you shake hands?" asked the magistrate. Grinning sheepishly, the two philosophers shook hands. ""Case dismissed," said the magistrate, who reflected, as the pair left arm in arm, that philosophy...