Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first racketing assault on his hearing, the cop at the Clarkstown, N.Y. police station held the telephone several inches from his ear. A Russian-it sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraper-was on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen...
...American military advisers that a new commander, rather than more American supplies, was needed to speed up the campaign. Their choice: Lieut. General Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff at Athens GHQ and main author of the plan for Operation Coronet. As Kitrilakis took over, the stalemate broke. Greek assault troops broke through the old rebel defense line and kept on going...
...Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which had to take off by dropping 1,000 feet over a precipice...
Anything to Oblige. In Los Angeles, when police told Mrs. Grace Smith that they couldn't arrest her husband for assault without sufficient evidence, Smith, who had wanted a little privacy anyway, stepped right up and socked...
Died. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 42, Standard Oil heir, prewar tabloid character; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. A popular target for assault & battery suits (by his yacht engineer and his secretary), twice-married Rogers enjoyed his greatest notoriety when Musicomedy Actress Evelyn Hoey committed suicide at his Pennsylvania farmhouse...