Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the start of last week's Kentucky Derby, 26-year-old Jockey Mehrtens suspected he had quite a horse under him. For seven furlongs he sat tensely tight-then he began laying the whip into chestnut, Texas-born Assault. An 8-1 white hope whose home base is the 900,-ooo-acre King Ranch of Texan Robert...
...Kleberg, Assault bolted through on the inside to take command. In the excitement of riding his first Derby, Mehrtens forgot to stop whipping. Assault flashed under the wire all by himself, an eight-length winner of the richest Derby ever (first-place money...
...horses. Other doting owners (some 18 in all) would not pay the $1,000 entry fee just to see their colors flutter on Derby Day. The Downs was alive with regional prides: Marine Victory, the Maryland horse; Pellicle, Kentucky's own; and a big Texas-born chestnut named Assault, which had won Jamaica's Wood Memorial Stakes-a proving ground for five Derby winners-in wagon-horse time. Assault is known as the New York horse...
...storming of the Pacific island of Peleliu by the U.S. 1st Marine Division. Captain Hunt and his company of 235 men were landed on Peleliu one dawn; forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief...
...Constituent Assembly closed six months of bitter politics, it was clear that France's 14th constitution since1791 would be a Constitution of the Left. Communists and Socialists had beaten down again & again a determined Right-and-Center assault led by the Catholic M.R.P...