Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their arms ashore at Kfar Vitkin. But in the fight they lost six killed, 20 wounded, while Haganah suffered two dead, three wounded. Beigin boarded the ship, ordered it southward. At midnight the Altalena rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam for shore...
...traditionally Democratic miners gave him a big hand. Forty thousand people lined the streets to cheer him, and 10,000 jammed a high-school stadium to hear him speak. Facing them, he suddenly dropped the folksy role he had been playing and launched a passionate and rashly phrased assault on the Republican Congress. He spoke savagely of G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Bob Taft: "I guess he'd let you starve. I'm not that kind." He was rewarded by a stirring sound-real applause...
...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...
...says he, "you won't find anything new in it, but. . . you and I don't need to be told anything new. We already know enough to lead perfect lives . . . The purpose of this book is to . . . kick you in the shins . . ." Indeed, Author Carnegie's assault on worry is irresistible...
...DeMille needs no sense of history, and little sense of taste; he has the film sense. All the picture's best scenes-the English army blurting through Marseille streets, the gnashing assault on Acre, the churning battle before Jerusalem-are masterly affirmations of cinema's first law: keep it moving...