Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleeves Up. Italian Communists, rolling up their sleeves after a Party Congress in Milan, called strikes of workers ranging from stevedores to tax collectors. Embattled Greece was marking time-but fearful that the Greek army, victorious at Konitsa, would be unable to withstand the next guerrilla assault...
Monotonous. In Los Angeles, Ernest Johnson was accused of assault by wife Susie Johnson, arrested by Detective Sergeants H. R. Johnson and E. T. Johnston, and defended in court by M. O. Johnson...
...Lingering Predilection." From the outset, Stimson's major opponents were the two sometimes brilliant, always compelling men who ran the war from Washington and London. Though both Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had early accepted the War Department's Operation BOLERO (a 50-division cross-Channel assault by the summer of 1943), "neither of the two had been fully and finally persuaded...
...Ninth Meeting. At Biscayne one night last week, the two speediest dogs in Florida-Beachcomber and Dry Lake-did their noble best. It was the ninth meeting of the two rivals in a month-something like a continuing race between Armed and Assault. Beachcomber whistled out of the No. 2 hole, got to the turn in front and stayed there. His time for the 5/16 mile was 31⅔ if, only a fifth of a second slower than the track record and the best time of the current season. It was Beachcomber's fifth victory over his rival...
...longer made fashionable copy but remained like a departing storm cloud, high above the year's fiction. One of the better pieces of writing about it was Allen R. Matthews' The Assault, a terse account of hitting the beach at Iwo Jima. Worth reading were John Home Burns's The Gallery, a novel of a G.I.'s experiences in Naples, Charles Christian Wertenbaker's story of the French Forces of the Interior (Write Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair...