Word: assaulted
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Perdew has been working for SNCC since June, 1963, when be left Harvard to join the civil rights movement in Albany, Ga. Arrested almost immediately during a peace march, Perdew was charged with "assault with intent to kill," a state felony. While awaiting trial, Perdew was again arrested and this time charged with "attempting to incite an insurrection," a capital offence...
Jonathan Swift is the Lucifer of British letters. Unfortunately, posterity has precautiously trimmed the old devil's toenails. As traditionally abridged, Gulliver's Travels is a charming classic for children. Yet Gulliver unexpurgated is no tale for tender ears; it is a ferocious assault on the human species. And Swift unsweetened is no nursery rhymester; he is the most powerful ironist since Aristophanes, the blackest of all the great blackguards who have lacerated the conscience of mankind...
...serious breach in the jealously protected autonomy of the University from outside or sectarian influences; (5) that the force and outside pressure in this case may well set a precedent for similar action to far more dubious ends; (6) that in short, the Berkeley revolt represents the most serious assault on academic freedom in America since the McCarthy...
...Missippi Project was begun with a series of articles stating that Mississippi would be a "bloodbath as a result of a massive, daring assault on the recial barriers of that state." Such articles were released from various sources all over the United States. Mississippians had no cause to expect anything else. So they braced themselves and planned a defense against what they feared might be aggressive measures. Before the members of the Project arrived, Mississippians were strongly opposed...
White SNCC worker Ralph Allen of Melrose, Massachusetts, was tried and convicted Dec. 11, 1963 on the "assault" charge, but his conviction and two-year jail sentence were overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court. The Court ruled that white defendants are entitled to a trial by a jury from which Negroes have not been excluded...