Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Welcome Assaults. The next day Barry drew another assault that might yet help him. In Warsaw to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Communism in Poland, Nikita Khrushchev said that Barry was trying "to enter the White House under the slogans of anti-Communism and belligerent threats...
...tried, the state's insurrection law was held unconstitutional by a federal court (TIME, Nov. 8). On the testimony of an Americus policeman who claimed that Allen threw a bottle at him, the 22-year-old civil rights worker was brought to trial instead on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The all-white jury convicted him, and he was sentenced to two years...
...Step. This week Scranton planned a second assault on Illinois. No matter what Ev Dirksen might say about polls, Scranton figured that he had some new ammunition in a state wide survey calculated to create second thoughts among delegates. According to Scranton, Illinois Republican and independent voters preferred Scranton over Goldwater, 65% to 35%. Moreover, when the two men were matched against Lyndon Johnson, the same voters picked Johnson over Goldwater, 38% to 25% (37% were undecided), while they favored Scranton over Johnson, 33% to 24% (43% were undecided). This was one of the first times since Lyndon took office...
...society, he declares in this collection of magazine articles, has "a record of private and public shooting, slugging, mayhem, assault, battery, contusions, abrasions, lynching and vigilantism unmatched by any people who come readily to mind, except, perhaps, the ancient Cossacks." With that vision of the violent society in mind, he goes on to argue that the U.S. gives away a little bit more of its "liberty" every time it yields to its fatal impulse to "horn into every war within reach." In fact, says Mayer, after two world wars, both of which he regards as U.S. defeats, "freedom is less...
...with the law. Last week, she packed up her mother, her brother, two sons, daughter-in-law, cat and dog and flew to Hawaii. Madalyn's family thereby 1) jumped bail bonds totaling $8,750, 2) violated two Baltimore court orders, 3) fled a dozen charges ranging from assault to contempt of court...