Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying up to Manchester in his own plane, Terris Moore, renowned Alpiner, led and instructed a Mountaineering Club expedition in its assault on Joe English Hill yesterday. Moore was a member of the first party ever to scale Minya Konds. 24,990 foot Chinese peak...
However, the coaching staff feels it is particularly important to have strong reserves on tap for the expected Army line assault. Gaffney will be in familiar territory, having been at the guard post every game last season...
...cadets and soldiers under obstinate Commandant José Moscardó had withstood Red Militia assaults for the whole period of the Civil War. Against the six-foot walls of the Alcázar more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds...
...detonators and afternoon papers throughout the world shrieked such page-wide headlines as: COMMUNISTS BLOW UP ALCÁZAR! - NEARLY ALL DEFENDERS FEARED DEAD! An entire trainload of additional Red militia had arrived from Madrid to help the Toledo Militia swarm in over the ruins. To make the assault safer Red artillery poured a 15-minute barrage into the clouds of dust and smoke rising over the Alcázar. Then 1,500 militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White blood. As they neared Spain's West Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable...
...been hired to fight for the Government by sending to Barcelona a quantity of gold bars from the vaults of the Bank of Spain. With the Premier watching, Red artillery opened up a terrific fire on the Whites, young Red militiamen flung themselves recklessly to death in a mad assault on strong White positions, and the Spanish Lenin went back to Madrid crying: "I am most optimistic! . . . We are doing wonders and we will do greater things...