Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Pearson: "I think that a strong case can be made for the neutralization of Formosa both in order to prevent any assault upon it by Communist forces and also so that it will not be used as a base for invasion of the mainland...
...irregulars"-guerrillas, fishermen and observers-in the Yikiang garrison had no air or sea protection. They had been repeatedly shelled from Communist-held Toumen, six miles away. At mid-morning on the day of the assault, the Reds began shelling the tiny island from two destroyers, four gunboats and a swarm of patrol boats. At noon 60 Red planes-Russian-built light bombers and fighter-bombers, with MIG jets for top cover-began plastering the Nationalists with 500-lb. bombs. Under this rain of fire, the garrison clung to its burrows; while they were holed up, the invaders came ashore...
...with different colored lights. His most vivid example: a staff assistant was acting under the emotionally charged red lights when a woman patient (going through a transference relationship) attacked her. Onstage, Enneis tried vainly to separate them, but an alert observer flicked the lights from red to blue. The assault stopped at once. Enneis now controls both the intensity and color of the lights himself...
Since 1900, said Judge Adlow last week, 327 men have died from prize-ring injuries. There were six fatalities last year. In the same week that Sanders was killed, Ralph Weiser lost his life in Klamath Falls, Ore. "In the absence of a law legalizing boxing matches, an assault entailing such consequence would constitute murder . . . Both of the medical examiners insisted that the objective of boxers who engage in a contest is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout punch means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant...
Last week all the survivors were charged with assault to commit murder, but Sheriff Mixon held that Sterling Garlington, in critical condition with a collapsed lung and splintered spine, "had the right to kill in self-defense. The hunters were strictly the aggressors." The other Garlington and the wounded hunter were in a fair way to recover. At her family's isolated ranch house, Leola Garlington was bitter. "Those dogs come in, and they've killed all our goats and hogs and the little calves," she gritted. "We don't want dogs on our place...