Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the halt comes, General Sir Harold Alexander has several choices. He can assault frontally, which may be a slow and costly operation. He can attack on the Adriatic side, where the Line is narrowest. He can try landings on either side. Or he can sit, keep the Germans engaged in Italy while things happen to them on other fronts...
...first of those tasks, it was well known, would be to revitalize his own Party, weeding out the old troops and putting them on garrison duty. The second would be to train the new younger troops for the G.O.P.'s great assault on Franklin Roosevelt's political fortress...
...many assault battalions that somebody had called him "often a bride but never a bridesmaid," but now it was obvious that he would never lead another. Said he: "I hate like hell for this to happen so early. But I'll be all right. I'll see you back on States-side and we'll throw a whiz-dinger." Said the brigadier general: "No man in the shape he's in has a right to look so well and talk so normally...
Torpedo Eight attacked, kept Jap fighters occupied until other U.S. squadrons could get to the scene. All 15 planes were shot down. Only one of Torpedo Eight's 30 airmen survived. But Spruance's decision and Torpedo Eight's courageous assault paved the way for the devastation visited on the Japs before the end of that...
Concentrated Privilege. As an instance of the divergence between people and publishers, Author Lasch cites the newspaper publishers' violent denunciation of the Government's antitrust suit against Associated Press "as a foul assault upon the First Amendment." Recalling the "frightening unanimity" of their attempt to foist this view on the public, he declares...