Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housewives' assault on the high cost of food, one item at the check-out counter has become a highly visible target: trading stamps. Trouble for the $1-billion-a-year industry is coming from all directions...
Malaysia is what South Viet Nam hopes to be a decade from now: a bustling little land that survived twelve vicious years of internal assault by Communist guerrillas and has gone on to achieve one of the highest standards of living in Asia. Until recently, Malaysians could look forward to continued progress. Now a cloud has fallen over their future. The reason is the sudden reduction in Britain's role as Malaysia's longtime financial angel and protector. With the end of the external threat from nearby Indonesia, Britain is withdrawing its 10,000-man military force...
With his development scheme, Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak is conducting his own Johnson-style "assault on poverty," which among other things has opened 200,000 acres of new farmland to 30,000 settlers. Since its founding in 1963, Malaysia has raised the G.N.P. of its 9.2 million people by an annual average...
...women by claiming to be a representative of a model agency. He did not harm any of the women, but got his kicks from touching them while he took their measurements on the pretext that he was recruiting talent. He served eleven months-for attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery-before he was paroled...
...Henry Livings, is a comedy of incongruity, unpredictability, originality and farcical absurdity. Its hero, Valentine Brose (Dustin Hoffman), is a Buster Keaton in a mod outfit who occasionally breaks into sly and menacing smiles. His mind is a running assault on logic. He is a living non sequitur. But his madness is the sanity of seers...