Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the wise old railbirds liked Stymie's chances. Hadn't Assault come from behind to beat him the week before? Obviously Assault, undefeated in 1947, was the horse to beat, and one of the few hesitations the wise guys had was over those two unpredictable horses specially flown in from the Argentine and Brazil...
...Hucksters (M-G-M), an adaptation of Frederic Wakeman's blustering, best-selling assault on radio advertising, hands Clark Gable his first good job since demobilization, and presents Britain's beautiful Deborah Kerr (TIME, Feb. 10) in her first U.S. film...
...position to defy Congress and make his assault on the new law by crippling the nation's economy. But the Taft-Hartley law apparently could not touch him. With the end of the Smith-Connally Act and the return of the mines to private owners, the miners argue, they would have neither contract nor employer. Until Lewis signed a new contract, the miners would simply be men who had just decided not to work for a while...
...regret that it should take place on a military level only, one can still examine with interest this approach to accord. The force suggested by the United States to the four other subscribing powers would consist of twenty divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...
Later that day, Private Matthews collapsed from fatigue and was evacuated. The Assault is the story of his own participation in one of history's bitterest battles, in which 20,860 out of 71,245 troops who took part were casualties. Unavoidably, it covers much old ground without revealing anything new about war. Yet in its almost tedious realism and painful authenticity it plows deeper into the meaning of combat than many a more artfully written book...