Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week South Korean army forces retook the southern cities of Sunchon and Yosu, seized in a Communist uprising the week before (TIME, Nov. 1). TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans accompanied government assault troops. His report...
Some notable GOP Senators managed to hand on to their chairs. Leverett Saltonstall stood firmly against the Massachusetts whirlwind, and Homer Ferguson successfully resisted the kind of assault in Michigan that ousted Republican Governor Kim Sigler. Other Republicans were safe in densely-GOP states; Bridges in New Hampshire, and Wherry in Nebraska, for example...
...been given a set of transcriptions by Bernie Shelton before Shelton was murdered last July (TIME, Aug. 9). They purportedly recorded a long chat between Bernie and a man who had asked him for a $25,000 bribe for an Illinois state's attorney to quash an assault indictment against Shelton...
...brilliant fighter pilot, a veteran of Bataan and the North African front, he is now being kept out of harm's way in Florida, his every move watched by the men in Washington who must decide whether or not to choose him as commander of the expected air assault on Japan...
...toward Britain, and went home. The "Atlantic Wall" was never a system of continuous fortifications; Rundstedt called its defenses "absurdly overrated." There was no real cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the ground forces, the generals told Liddell Hart. And the Battle of the Bulge, which seemed so powerful an assault to the Allies, was a nightmare to the Germans too -confused, desperate, suicidal...