Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Birmingham. According to the plan, a mob of 150, led by an officer of the North Alabama Citizens' Council, was to have stormed the auditorium and kidnaped Cole. Only the six showed up. So serious was the police view of the affair that two were charged with assault with intent to commit murder, the four others on lesser counts of conspiracy...
...Toledo, Falangist hero of one of the most celebrated battles of the Spanish civil war; of a heart attack while shaving in bed; in Madrid. As commandant of Spain's West Point, the Alcázar of Toledo, Professional Soldier Moscardó withstood the 67-day Loyalist assault on the ancient fortress-castle with some 1,100 soldiers and civilians, was finally relieved by a Franco army after Loyalist troops had hurled more than 6,000 4-in. shells and 4,000 6-in. shells against the fortress, mined its rocky base with dynamite, sprayed its walls with gasoline...
...Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as head of the Socialists, who led the Opposition assault. His voice ringing out with assurance, Gaitskell took charge of the House with what a veteran member called "possibly the best speech he has given in Parliament." He summed up, as government debaters had not bothered to, the grave consequences of General Glubb's expulsion from command of Jordan's British-paid army: "It increases the danger of war. It is a very serious setback to the policy of the Baghdad Pact. It accordingly becomes clear, surely, that we must have...
...President is well aware of the concentrated attack by which the Democrats have sought to tear down Nixon. He also knows that a strong Republican faction would prefer another candidate. To thrust the crown upon Nixon at this time, therefore, would simply be to increase the force of that assault. For the President to dump Nixon at San Francisco, however, would be to acknowledge that his high praise did not necessarily convey unswerving support; to confess, in effect, that he had made a serious mistake, or to imply that his desire for re-election might lead him to place expediency...
Shack Out on 101 (Broidy; Allied Artists) confronts the U.S. motorist-already reduced to a walleyed wreck by the massed assault of saturation traffic, maladjusted headlights, homicidal hitchhikers, kids on bikes, the hydramatic wheeze, small-town radar cops and the finance company - with a new and yet more fiendish horror of the highway: the Communist-controlled hamburger stand...