Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calculated frenzy that filled his fellow-worker victims with two and three bullets apiece, at least 30 shots in all. One bullet shattered a transformer, adding darkness to the sudden panic; yet throughout his ten-minute rampage, Held displayed the calm proficiency of a man who has mapped his assault in advance. Shot dead were Supervisors Carmen H. Edwards and Richard Davenport, Lab Technicians Allen R. Barrett and Elmer E. Weaver, and Superintendent Donald V. Walden. Picking his targets with care as he strode through the mill, Held also wounded James Allen, a superintendent; Richard Carter, a lab technician; David...
Reception Committee, The funeral assault was the first publicized exploit of a new kind of force operating in South Viet Nam's Delta: the Prews, or Provisional Reconnaissance Units. Informally advised by U.S. Navy officers and made up largely of former Viet Cong who have defected, the Prews are primarily night raiders who slip into territory in which the Viet Cong feel secure, turning the enemy's hit-and-run tactics back on him. "We operate where the Viet Cong haven't been bothered before," explains McMahon. "They don't dare sleep in their houses...
Tokenism & Assault. To assemble his show, Von Groschwitz spent six months traveling in Europe, Canada and the U.S.-though not Latin America, the Orient or the Iron Curtain countries. He returned from his foray with 221 paintings and 108 sculptures by 326 artists from 17 nations. Every idiom in the current vocabulary of art is represented: machines clang, lights flash and mobiles shift subtly. Von Groschwitz drew the line only at the European artist who submitted a piece of dynamic Dada that requires the viewer to light a fuse, then watch as the work blows up in his face...
Easily the most valuable and varied exhibits are those of the U.S. and Britain. Both galleries blaze with force and inventiveness, their billowing forms and brilliant hues seeming to leap off the walls and assault the viewer. By contrast, the gallery devoted to France seems cautious and dowdy-walls of neat and tidy paintings that sit back docilely and require pince-nez attention...
...Faculty realized that many of the students became involved in the demonstration on the spur of the moment last Wednesday. Their activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined to mount a premeditated assault on the rules of the University. And many of the demonstrators now regret the tactic of obstruction they used to protest the war and Dow's appearance at Harvard...