Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on the Marshall Islands had caused Navy tacticians many a sleepless night since the decision was made, last summer, to open the Central Pacific. After the expensive Tarawa assault on the Gilberts in November, the tacticians squirmed harder. If the Japs had been able to fortify Tarawa so strongly in a year and a half, what would the Marshalls be like after some 20 years of fortification...
...dramatis personae of the capital's melodorous mystery thriller, the jury decided, had nothing to do with the case, excepting C. Nelson Sparks, the ex-Mayor of Akron. The role assigned to him was that of the victim: he-had innocently published the phony letter in his garbled assault on One Man-Wendell Willkie...
...Nettuno's beaches last week, the Allied Command tested the alternative to frontal assault. It worked. The Allies had found a short cut to Rome; they had also outflanked the enemy, massed to meet them in the south...
...Marshalls themselves Army and Navy bombers continued to pound, as they had for two months-bombing and strafing Wotje, Maleolap, Jaluit, Mili and Kwajalein, attacking shipping, airfields, fuel and ammunition dumps in the same pattern of strategic bombing which had preceded the assault on the Gilberts...
...affidavits about anti-Semitic acts. Said the League: "Nearly every temple and synagogue in the Washington Heights area has been desecrated. Building walls have been marked with the swastika, and pornographically hateful descriptions of the Jews. At least two Protestant churches in the area have been similarly desecrated. . . . The assault incidents have a uniform pattern. In each case the hoodlum demands to know the religion of his intended victim. If the victim admits he is Jewish, or if the hoodlum concludes that this is the fact... an assault ensues. The age range of the anti-Semitic hoodlums...