Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the correspondents were lunching in their headquarters at the newly rebuilt Hotel Astor, across the street from the presidential palace, when they heard the news of the assault on Gaitán. They expected trouble and, within 30 minutes, got it. The Army took over their hotel as a strong point to defend the palace, and Dozier spent his first beleaguered night trying to sleep while two soldiers banged away at snipers from his bedroom window...
...Arabs who lived there, many had fled to safety even before the attack started. As the panicky evacuation began during the Jewish assault, the remaining thousands gathered what few belongings they could carry. Lashed on by the mortar barrage, more than a thousand men, women & children hammered at the No. 3 gate of the British-controlled port area to seek safety. Royal Marine guards finally let them on to the docks...
Corpus Delicti. In Sydney, Australia, police charged Andrew See with assault, declared they had found the evidence in his raincoat pocket: his father-in-law's left...
...hockey a game-something with rules and a bit of science about it. The game has come a long way since then, and not always uphill. Last week in New Haven, 1,200 spectators watched a game called ice hockey, and played by college boys, that looked more like assault & battery...
...portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been placed upon .the sacrificial altar to appease racial and other minority fringe groups...