Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall. In Quang Tri city at week's end, the Marines and the Vietnamese were digging in as for a siege, piling sandbags higher, gouging out foxholes, setting up mines and barbed wire-all on the prudent assumption that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would soon assault the city again. Similar unease prevailed in Hue, where the Viet Cong radio promised an attack soon. Premier Ky, who flew to Quang Tri to inspect the damage of the first raid, came up with his own solution to the province's troubles. It included the possible evacuation...
...thin line of 1st Division infantrymen, moved warily through the jungles of Tay Ninh province one humid morning last week. Deep in Viet Cong territory, the lonely Americans posed a tempting target. Finally, at high noon, the Viet Cong yielded to the temptation. Under cover of a furious mortar assault, they attacked in force. Almost immediately, U.S. artillery that had been covering the patrol's advance opened up on the hitherto-hidden Viet Cong mortar emplacements. Within minutes, Allied planes were bombing and strafing the enemy attackers. Besieged by shells and 40 lethal air strikes, the battered Viet Cong...
...bullets, and in some bunkers to a single grenade. Eleven of the batteries' 18 howitzers lay silenced by enemy fire; artillerymen loaded the remaining guns while kneeling amid burning shells. As the enemy fire poured in and the Viet Cong, scenting the kill, closed in for a final assault, everyone in Suoi Tre from gunners wielding pistols to cooks and bottle washers desperately resisted the onslaught...
...months of preparation were over. Gerald W. Blakeley Jr. of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had underwritten the Boston tour with a fat $25,000 check. The Sing-Out Kids had finished their tour of the Caribbean and their assault on New York and Yale. Heikki Lampela had secured the sponsorship and the theatre. The Belmont housewives and the high school kids and the old men and women and the Harvard and Radcliffe students had run the gauntlet of picketers carrying signs reading "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "Sing Away Your Sickness with a Right-Wing Melody." They were...
...Cambridge, the other side is repelling the Fugs assault without recourse to law. Last month, the parents of a minor filed a formal criminal complaint against Briggs and Briggs for sellingThe Fugs, a record which, claimed the parents, was indeed "harmful to minors" under the provisions of Section 28. In a subsequent meeting with Cambridge Judge Lawrence T. Feloney, spokesmen for Briggs and Briggs agreed not to sell The Fugs or The Village Fugs, their first album. The judge dismissed the case without determining the legal status of the records...