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Word: assaulters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne loses his temper and beats up everybody in sight-a magic Hollywood formula that enables him to corral all the criminals, clear his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Before Bill Z lost control and ran out to the cemetery, he had spent hours locked in his room, studying religion, sex and science, and writing long discourses on philosophical problems. He was no easy patient to handle. He kept threatening to assault his psychiatrist. Mixed up about sex, he accused other patients of homosexual tendencies toward him (a reflection of his self-doubt) and made erotic advances to the nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital on the River | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Good Luck. In Bakersfield, Calif., two prison-farm inmates were charged with assault & battery after the superintendent reported that they had burned the hair off Prisoner Frank McKee's head, forced him to eat grape stems and cigarette butts, struck him with a horseshoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Cancel orders for 145 B-47s,420 T36 trainers and 72 assault transports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Tailored to Fit | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...fighter into a near-vertical dive, cracked the sound barrier at 687.5 m.p.h. to become the world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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