Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, who knew good men when they saw them, put them at machine guns in General Grant tanks headed for the front. The 13-hour assault on Jap positions that followed turned out to be one of the fiercest battles yet waged in those hills...
...assault on Nazi Europe was still growing in weight and speed (see chart). The record of sorties flown in a single day by Allied planes rose to 8,000. The greatest U.S. air fleet ever launched on a single mission sent 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters against three synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. This was air power in force to fit the fondest visions of Mitchell and Douhet-and more accurately employed than they had even dreamed in their...
Soon tanks rolled up the beaches, supplies piled up. Barges were coming in to Japanese jetties now, landing the troops dry-shod. The enemy backed up before a smartly executed amphibious assault...
...year-old hoodlum, out on parole from reform school, met a 65-year-old rabbi. First the hoodlum insulted the rabbi, then knocked out two of his teeth. A month later Hoodlum John Peluso and Rabbi Sholem Cohn met in a New York court. The charge against Peluso: felonious assault. Said Rabbi Cohn in Yiddish (he cannot speak English): "As a rabbi, I forgive him. I don't want him punished...
...court to be lenient with him." Less inclined to leniency, Judge Lester W. Patterson reduced the charge to simple assault, last week sentenced Parolee Peluso to the city penitentiary for a term not to exceed three years...