Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the demonstrators were finally driven away from the Federal Triangle area, many regrouped to lead an assault on the White House, Several thousand militants ran past two police checkpoints before they were finally stopped within a block of the White mansion's high black gates...
After the assault on the White House area, many of the radicals formed street gangs and broke windows for several hours in the downtown area before police could stop them...
They will face assault-and-battery and other charges in Third District Court on November 26, along with Mann and others arrested for the CFIA disruption...
...wave of violence is sweeping U.S. classrooms. Much of it is centered in junior high schools, which have long coped with the most combustible years of adolescence. Yet the incidence of burglary, larceny, assault and even murder is rising in all public schools, reports the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. Statistics suggest that more and more teachers are quitting their jobs out of sheer fear of their students...
...convicted of manslaughter if he commits an illegal act that could be "reasonably anticipated by an ordinarily prudent person" as likely to cause another's death. Even if Nosis did not strike Ripple, the prosecution argued at the trial, his threats and gestures amounted to an assault. Moreover, since Nosis knew about Ripple's heart condition, he could have reasonably anticipated that the threats were likely to result in death. Nosis was found guilty, and the Ohio Supreme Court has just upheld that verdict by refusing to review his appeal...