Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...
...Dorothy Schiff in her "Dear Reader" column, wrote warmly of "ebullient" Nelson Rockefeller, pointedly inquired: "Are you sure that Averell Harriman is really the most independent, liberal gubernatorial candidate?" Then on the front page of the final edition, on the night before election, Post readers got a furious Schiff assault on Harriman: "Governor Harriman's recent snide insinuation that Nelson Rockefeller is pro-Arab and anti-Israel should not be condoned by any fair-minded person . . . If you agree with me, do not vote for Averell Harriman tomorrow...
Once More, With Feeling (by Harry Kurnitz) is a farcical assault on the world of music, not unlike the author's skirmish, in Reclining Figure, with the world of art. The method is to let fly now at chicanery and now at sham, and in between to go in for shenanigans. The central figure is an egomaniac orchestra conductor who, from shattering his musicians' fiddles and his trustees' feelings, can hardly find an orchestra to conduct. On one side he is Blanked by a shameless manager who ten times a day tries to save the day with...
...under which the Vatican press corps hired-and even bribed-tipsters (usually laymen) on the papal staff. When, a few years ago, the papal physician peddled pictures of his patient down on the floor doing pushups, the Pope-with a grace few men could have mustered-forgave even this assault on the papal privacy.* But even the patient Pius would have been tried by some of the press relations that attended his death...
After another week's work in Manhattan she will head for the Embers (no kin) in Fort Wayne, Ind., then the Embers (no kin) in St. Louis, to assault a few more trembling pianos. Says she: "I'm better technically today than I ever was. I'm wild, but I'm polished...