Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful was the U.S. air assault on German oil? The most flattering part of the answer had been given in the overall report of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (TIME, Nov. 5). But the full report of the Survey's oil experts, released only this week, added some critical qualifications...
...military planners had their own interservice wranglings. The Navy wanted the target ships in open formation; the Air Forces wanted a closed formation to increase the destruction. But against the concerted civilian assault, the services formed a solid front-despite all obstacles, the tests should go ahead on schedule. A delay of only a few weeks might force postponement until next year, because of unpredictable weather conditions in the Marshalls after July. The test might never come off-further postponement could always be urged on the ground of bigger bombs or better instruments just around the corner...
...Judson H. Smith came to an end. Firelight from an open grate flickered on Smith's grey, lined face as the court president, Colonel Louis P. Leone, announced the verdict: guilty of making prisoners eat excessive amounts of food, of administering castor oil, of two charges of felonious assault and four charges of simple assault (i.e., beatings). The sentence: dishonorable discharge and three years at hard labor...
...rich North Platte valley just outside Scottsbluff, Neb., Harold Baltes bought a farm for $364 an acre, roughly three times the local price in 1939. In the rolling, rocky hill country north of San Antonio, the old ranchers were moving back like Indians in the face of the assault from pale-faced city slickers. Land worth $8 to $10 an acre a few years back was going for as much as $100. Drawled one old rancher: "They want a place where they can keep some horses, have a big hat, boots and station wagon with their name on the side...
...what at first looked to be a full dress assault and battery case with intent to rob, Patrick F. Bowditch, of Lowell House, and a friend, Dirck Roosevelt, were haled into a Cambridge district court yesterday...