Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeds men and supplies from Laos into South Viet Nam. The Communists have been notably quiet there since the bloody battles in the la Drang valley last month. Intelligence experts say they detect signs that the North Vietnamese regulars are busily regrouping, perhaps preparing for an unprecedented division-sized assault...
...program. Seattle cost its parent company, King Broadcasting, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ads when it ran an article ridiculing local wines. When a project to renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which remains a Chamber of Commerce publication, has run pieces debunking the Ku Klux Klan and questioning the city's cultural pretensions...
...Mistake. Strange, a gas-station attendant with an arrest record for assault and weapons offenses, was accused of being the trigger man in the July 15 murder of Willie Brewster, 38, a Negro. Brewster belonged to no civil rights organizations, walked no picket lines, enjoyed a reputation as a hardworking family man who wasn't even "uppity." His mistake was to be caught driving home from work with three friends an hour after the Anniston courthouse had been the scene of a hate rally by the National States Rights Party. Party leaders had openly preached violence...
Harvard dominated the third period, but Thornton was equal to the assault. He turned aside 22 Crimson shots, many off the sticks of Eric Rosenberger and Jack Garrity, who led the offensive harassment all night...
...chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that may be what is responsible for the nagging feeling that there is something lacking in the latter-day O'Hara. Any realistic story of the era includes the assault of the upwardly mobile upon the established rich. But O'Hara's as pirants never make it. Like Scott Fitzgerald before him, O'Hara feels that there is something implacably defeating about the always-have-been-rich...