Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent article, informative, reverent, and sometimes angry. Miller, Morgan insists quite correctly, never received the honors he deserved from the academic world. He acted the manners of a "stevedore" more than a professor too often for his colleagues's comfort, and he never relaxed his lusty assault on the venerable citadels of scholarly mythology. His achievement can be appreciated, according to Morgan, by other students of the colonial period, but it cannot be measured; his influence was somehow "incommensurate with his genius." His forays into the new field of intellectual history, his insistence that "the mind...
...tossed over a 20-ft. bridge. Clacton police called for reinforcements from a neighboring town, fought pitched battles with the teenagers, many of whom were armed with ax handles and furniture legs. Finally the bobbies restored order: over 60 youths were arrested on charges ranging from burglary to assault...
...particularly nasty little brawl: the villagers, fearing a Greek Cypriot attack, had built roadblocks outside of town. Hundreds of Greek Cypriot "regulars" surrounded them and demanded removal of the roadblocks. When the villagers obeyed, the Greeks demanded the surrender of all arms. The villagers refused, and the assault began...
There were unconfirmed reports of another assault on a Harvard student near Weeks Bridge, the location of several muggings in recent months...
...Generals Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor were responsible for canceling an airdrop on Rome that, by Murphy's calculations, might have shortened the Italian campaign by eight months. But, he adds, the 82nd Air-orne Division was an important part of the assault plans on Salerno, and may have been withheld for that reason...