Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assault, 1946's Horse of the Year, and fourth highest money winner of all time ($668,020), failed in one comeback attempt last season and was retired to stud on Texas' 875,000-acre King Ranch. When he was found to be sterile, his ailing front leg was patched up and he was sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good...
...enlisting allies for a momentous struggle to keep its empire intact. Only two weeks ago, it split its high-priced stock ($179), thus bringing its price down to $45 so that smaller investors could buy it, and, in effect, become Du Pont's allies. Last week, the expected assault began. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit in Chicago's Federal Court to break the $1,585,000,000 Du Pont holdings into at least four pieces. It was the biggest of the long list of antitrust suits the Government has filed against the company since...
Last week, after rehearsing since September, Bethlehem's choir gave it its 42nd festival performance. With the first full-throated assault of the opening "Kyrie eleison" the choir had its audience-1,100 packed in the church, another thousand on the sunlit lawns outside-thrilling to attention...
...hour later, around 7 a.m., he regained consciousness, identified himself, discovered his wallet and $13 were missing, and reported the robbery and assault to police. He was removed shortly thereafter to Stillman Infirmary
While they had no definite clues to go on, police believed that the same group pulled last night's holdups and yesterday morning's assault and robbery of Fisher...