Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion this time was the presentation of Inönü's 1965 budget, totaling a record $1.6 billion. Though nobody actually had much against the budget, J.P. Leader Suleyman Demirel, 41, a wealthy, U.S.-trained civil engineer, mounted an assault on it to discredit Inönü. The Premier was vulnerable: backed solidly by only 192 members of the 450-seat National Assembly, Inönü ruled with the aid of a mere handful of independents. When the vote came last week, the Justice Party, which has 171 Assembly seats, had rounded up enough support from...
...night after his arrival, Mauldin had scarcely composed himself for sleep when Viet Cong guerrillas opened fire in the assault that flared into an international incident. "That sounds like mortars," said Mauldin to his hutmate, an Army colonel. Ignoring instructions to dive into the nearest bunker, Mauldin sprinted into action while chattering out loud in English as a precautionary measure: clad only in shorts, he was eager not to be mistaken for one of the Viet Cong, who habitually sport such abbreviated battle dress...
...this respect, it is living cars rather than dead ones that are under scrutiny. Johnson served notice that he intends to institute discussions among auto industry officials and "other interested groups" about what can be done to eliminate the exhaust pipe's assault on the lungs (see SCIENCE...
...torso or eerie with emptiness, have increasingly become hunting grounds for the city's sick and sinister creatures of prey. Complaints of major crimes increased 9% in the city during 1964, the police department announced last week. But complaints of serious crimes-such as robbery, mugging and armed assault-grew by a staggering 52% in New York City's subways...
General de Gaulle continued his assault on the dollar. Since no nation rushed to embrace De Gaulle's earlier proposals that the world return to the gold standard, French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing last week announced that France would go back to gold all by itself. Beginning immediately, said Giscard, France will settle all its foreign deficits by paying in gold-a fairly painless move in view of the fact that France has no deficits. More ominously for the U.S. and Britain, he called on the West's major nations to make "a solemn...