Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of the third day, Communist tanks broke through the city's northern defenses. Inside Taejon, North Korean guerrillas who had infiltrated during the night opened fire with rifles, light machine guns and mortars. Other Red assault troops outside the city began driving in the defenders' flanks...
...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...better part of ten days, the North Korean air force had been lying low. During the war's first two weeks, busy Russian-built Yak fighters and Ilyushin assault planes had taken a beating from U.S. jet planes. Then the Northern command apparently decided to husband its planes and airmen. U.S. observers guessed that the Reds had either withdrawn their planes to Manchurian bases, or had hidden them in underground hangars built into the Korean mountainside...
Last Word. In Oklahoma City, Ossie Love, arrested for assault and battery on his wife's complaint, asked the cops to let him drive his car to headquarters and park it there "so she won't be able to drive...
Example. In Boston, Mrs. Madeline H. Sweney, founder and president of The Order of the Olive Branch, an organization devoted to plumping for world peace, appeared in court on a charge (later dismissed) of assault & battery...