Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gulf of Mexico, the waves emerge silently, advancing slowly and uniformly, like long thin lines of infantry, on the mouth of the Rio Grande. The river, exhausted after its tortuous odyssey along more than half of the 2,076-mile U.S.-Mexican border, offers little resistance to this serried assault. Its tired brown water backs up and bivouacs in a lagoon near a white lighthouse, and from there it slips, as stealthily as a camp deserter, into the Gulf...
Take the Republican assault on Governor Dukakis over the Pledge of Allegiance. This bare-knuckled attack aimed to accomplish two things. One was to locate and identify the Governor for a national audience. The Republicans' intentions, of course, were malign, but they found their opening in Dukakis' relative obscurity outside his home state. The Republicans hoped that a trivial action, which had passed almost unnoticed in the political culture of Massachusetts, would have a different resonance when replayed in the political culture of the country as a whole. The second purpose of the pledge attack was to restate...
...ever at odds with language, as if he does not regard it as a reliable vehicle of thought. At his worst moments on the stump, his surreal moments, Bush is a sort of amateur terrorist of language, like an eleven-year- old Shi'ite picking up a Kalashnikov assault rifle for the first time and firing off words in wild bursts, blowing out the lamps, sending the relatives diving through the windows. Bush is mostly oblivious to the nuances of language, as if some moral or cultural dyslexia were knotting up the thought (which may explain why he keeps using...
...Cambridge resident who had been previously warned off Harvard property was arrested on Thursday night outside Lehman Hall for assault and battery of a Harvard police officer, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to Harvard Police...
...heard about these votes because the legislation supported by the Administration did not become law. There has been scant press coverage of the administration's assault on the welfare state, largely because it hasn't succeeded...