Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong within the borders of South Viet Nam ballooned to bigger-than-life proportions last week-and was as quickly exploded. Over the Communist-dominated district of Ben Cat rendezvoused the largest helicopter armada in the history of warfare-96 choppers carrying rockets, machine guns and 1,000 assault troops. Supported by 4,000 infantrymen, Rangers and counterguerrilla squads, the attack force hoped to encircle an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 Viet Cong "main force" troops who two weeks earlier had mauled four government battalions in a carefully executed ambush...
...Civil Rights Act became law. The owners wanted peace; racial violence already had cut the tourist trade by 50% . Yet a few days later, most places were resegregated. An army of white racists, the owners said, had forced them to lock out Negroes once more on pain of assault or worse...
Then followed some imaginative stunts, such as broadcasting America the Beautiful from California to New Jersey via the moon. But the early 1960s were also marked by many disappointing setbacks for what a 1962 cover story called the "anxious assault on space." And in a 1963 cover on William Pickering, the head of California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and undisputed hero of last week's Ranger triumph, TIME said: "Those were dark days. But each failure became a lecture from space on what to do or not to do the next time...
When Robert E. Lee launched 15,000 Confederates against a firmly entrenched Union Army of several times that number at Gettysburg, was he being exceptionally courageous? Or exceptionally foolhardy? Or exceptionally bullheaded (his generals to a man had advised him against a frontal assault)? None of these, according to Psychologist Norman Kiell, an assistant professor at New York's Brooklyn College. He was responding instead to what one study of group psychology called "the early ego identifications of childhood" that exist between "the group and the group leader...
Hodes said that similar incidents have been occurring in Greenwood quite regularly. John Handy, a local Negro, was arrested the same day and beaten more severely than Hodes. He was also released on bond. A female COFO worker was arrested Sunday on a charge of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Four hours later the charge was dropped...