Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That brought a defense for Dick & friends from one Sheelagh Hardie: "Surely Dick, having emerged unscathed from fire and water, from the perilous lift-shaft and the homicidal ape, need fear little from this new assault. Surely, too, our children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound fractions or Latin verbs on top of a long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated...
...first the West, especially the U.S., was thrown off balance by this assault. The West had forgotten what happens to wartime coalitions when victory removes the pressure that holds them together; it had forgotten (though Russia never ceased reminding it) how great was the economic, political and moral gulf between the two systems...
Abie long since proved to be impervious to critical assault & battery. It made its author, Anne Nichols, a millionaire several times over with its six years on Broadway (1922-28), innumerable road tours and stock performances, foreign royalties, one previous movie (1928) and a radio soap opera (withdrawn last year by Procter & Gamble after vigorous listener protests). In Manhattan for the premiere, Playwright Nichols predicts that Abie will go on making money for another 25 years...
...World War II histories, the shrillest (and most adeptly plugged by the press-gents) was likewise one of the most widely read: Ralph Ingersoll's bitter Top Secret, a boiling-mad assault on British wartime policies and "politics" which told more about Author Ingersoll than it did about the British. No top-ranking general told his own story, though Katherine Tupper Marshall told her husband's, Ike Eisenhower had a tactful Boswell in his naval aide, Harry C. Butcher (My Three Years with Eisenhower), and General Lewis H. Brereton published his diaries, which made...
...plan to the ship. The refugee radio operator, who could not speak English, painfully deciphered the messages in his Webster. The plan: a fleet of small boats would go out to meet the ship and would then put ashore refugees over a wide area of the coast in an "assault landing." Underground terrorists, who had ceased their attacks throughout Palestine for nearly a week, were ready to hold off police during the landing...