Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assault. Heartened by the temporary defeat of one Bevin policy, insurgent Labor backbenchers proceeded to a general assault. Within the next three days a total of more than 80 Labor members had introduced three motions calling for a fundamental change in British foreign policy. One of the motions urged that the advance of U.N. forces in Korea be halted. Two of them proposed fresh "peace" talks between Britain, France, the U.S. and Russia...
...convention in Atlanta of newspaper editors. He dealt by indirection with other implications of the Red concentrations along the Yalu-that they might be planning to make North Korea a permanent open sore, that they might be trying to trap the bulk of U.S. strength while another, major Red assault was launched elsewhere...
...word-of-mouth reports about the contents of Forrestal's private papers, it belabored the backbiters and columnists responsible, as Writer Huie put it, for the "destruction" of the late Defense Secretary. Huie, whose book, The Case Against the Admirals, was an air-power fanatic's assault against Forrestal's program for a balanced defense force, now lauded Forrestal as the only Administration leader who had fully realized the threat of Russia and knew how to fight the Reds. Wrote Huie: "In December, 1947, when France was paralyzed by a general transportation strike, Forrestal summoned his most...
...such brash young men at England's Cambridge University set out for an assault on cosmology's castle. Fred Hoyle, 22, and Raymond Arthur Lyttleton, 25, of St. John's College, earned their livings (as they still do) by teaching mathematics to Cambridge undergraduates. After hours they planned their campaigns to explain the universe-not just the stars and the galaxies, but the whole vast mechanism, compounded of space and time, of mass and energy, which produces the "objects" seen by telescopes, as well as that oddity, the earth, and its curious inhabitant...
...authority is seldom able to prevail at both ends of the field, and it takes resistance of a more purely physical kind to turn away the main assault. It is a long, and sometimes bloody, fight. The goalpost always falls in the end, partially through the pressure of its defenders falling back...