Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's excommunication marked a stage in the reluctant recognition by Rome that the Communists were probably making considerable headway in their drive to split parts of the Catholic hierarchy away from Rome. Cleverly, the Reds have avoided an all-out assault on religion as such. They are trying to create "national" churches. While several national Christian churches have flourished for centuries, there is no record (and no probability) of a national church lasting long under an anti-Christian government...
...finance the government campaign out of the Treasury, as it was financed more or less in 1948. Said Havana's newspaper Alerta: "Bosch took office to the profound disgust of the politicians, and leaves accompanied by their broad smiles as they wait outside the ministry doors to assault the Treasury he guarded...
...struggle through a department store and marvel at the producing and consuming power of the American public . . . . watch two hundred American housewives assault a table plled high with chemises, and leave it bare and deserted fifteen minutes later. (The house detective thought I was a shoplifter...
...Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
...Meets Girl. In Montreal, Rose Frishling withdrew the assault charge she had filed against Ronald Cohen, explained that she and the accused had just been married...