Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer he spoke, the broader his attack became. He started by specifically chastising House Republicans for votes on particular issues, then expanded his assault to include the "old Republican buggy [that] can go only one way and that is backwards, downhill." Johnson enjoyed himself immensely. On the way back to Washington and in subsequent appearances signing consumer-protection legislation, he was as perky and peppy as his mutt Yuki...
...imperil the rest of Southeast Asia. "No," he replied. "I believe it. I think that the struggle is close enough. China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Viet Nam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic position for guerrilla assault on Malaya, but would also give the impression that the wave of the future in Southeast Asia was China and the Communists." As for China, Jack Kennedy described it on Aug. 1, 1963 as a "Stalinist" regime, itching for war and consequently "menacing...
...bunker, killing the three American occupants. With suicidal intensity reminiscent of the Chinese in Korea, wave after wave of Viet Cong rolled over each other toward the camp. This time a hail of fire from a battalion of U.S. defenders and the miniguns of circling American gunships stopped the assault short of the fort's outer fences. Chalk up another 20 Viet Cong dead, plus many bodies that would be found at the end of trails of blood leading away from the camp...
...last the Americans managed to work their way down the hill to cut out a landing zone. The wounded were led down in a line and helilifted to hospitals; food, water and ammunition finally began to pour in. The encouraged troopers seized the initiative and once more tried to assault the heights, crawling over fallen trees, their flamethrowers leading the way. But the flamethrowers proved to be perfect targets-one man was incinerated by a hit on his own canister-and once again relentless fire from the enemy bunkers drove the Americans backward...
What stimulates excitement and controversy about the Living Theater is that it uses audiences almost like guinea pigs, trying to incite them to active emotional responses rather than passive mental assent. Critics have called this assault on the senses "the drama of the anti-word" or "the theater of attrition." Dialogue and plot are reduced to a minimum and replaced by improvisation, ritual and a grotesquerie of violence and the macabre...