Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...
...stable won so many big pots. Last week, Calumet Farm added up more than $1,000,000 in purses won this year (previous record: $601,660). Its pride & joy, Armed, had put Calumet over a million with his victory in the Washington Park Handicap at Chicago. Armed overtook Assault to become the second biggest money-winner of all time. And there is still another quarter million in purses for Calumet's fast horses to run after this season...
...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
Your article states: "He wanted no boys of good reputation. . . . Most were sent by judges, after being tried for such crimes as robbery, assault, attempted murder and rape. The rest were problem boys whose parents could no longer handle them...
Counterpoint. Walter S. Tower, slight, sandy-haired president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, was left officially speechless by FTC's assault, declined all comment. His spokesman, however, predicted that most steel customers would rally to the industry's defense because the multiple basing point system, they say, saves them money...