Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward New Horizons. "Whether we actually get another Soviet assault on Berlin depends on how much the West rearms, politically, morally and militarily, and on how much it moves on to Berlin. If it does that, it can demand from the Soviets: 'We want free elections in all Germany. We want free access to Berlin...
...House Jumping Joe gave reporters a mimeographed statement. It said: "It is my personal belief that Taft right now is secretly hoping for an American defeat in Korea as his last desperate chance for re-election." Even Democratic National Chairman William Boyle was taken aback by this know-nothing assault, but he recovered himself to predict: "Ferguson will walk away with the election...
...forces began to hold, their commanders ordered a series of daring, small-scale counterattacks, to rescue units cut off in the first phase of the Red assault. Near Masan, a counterattacking rescue battalion smashed through heavy North Korean forces to save the remnants of a unit whose steadfast refusal to yield a razorback ridge near Soehon played a major part in stalling the Reds' southern drive. The ridge was a key position controlling the broad valley of the Nam River down to its junction with the Naktong...
...colleagues to the subtle interaction of prestige, politics and physical force. The Korean war is a weirdly pertinent example of the warning that Radford & Co. were trying to give the U.S. For their case, it was unfortunate that in their zest to make it, they got sidetracked in an assault on the Air Force's long-range bomber...
...slipped away in the night on an unguarded turnpike, only 100 yards from the Confederate lines. His next move was even more disastrous: he followed the Federals a few miles north, and "without adequate artillery and over the protests of his officers," bled his army in a foolhardy frontal assault. His blind courage led straight to his rout at Nashville 16 days later, and his resignation...