Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Bailey himself launched the most direct assault imaginable on coronary disease-reaming out the diseased part of the arteries (TIME, Nov. 26). The first two patients, on whom Bailey based his preliminary announcement, have both done well. One, a man of 52, has gone back to work. But Bailey was not content with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker...
...Left. Three months ago wispy, white-maned Premier Antonio Segni won parliamentary approval for his plan to put all state-owned corporations under a single "Ministry of State Holdings." The right was worried: in the hands of a zealous left-winger, the new ministry could spearhead an all-out assault on Italian free enterprise...
...last week five nimble minds tossed ideas back and forth for such a book glorifying President Chester Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...
Critic John Ciardi's boorish assault on Anne Lindbergh's verse [Feb. 18] sounds suspiciously like the hysterical protest of one who fears that readers may be lured away from the jabberwocky school of modern verse, of which he considers himself the grand high panjandrum...
...become "disenchanted" with the Teamsters after what was admittedly a falling-out among thugs. Once he had rid himself-at Chairman McClellan's request-of his wad of chewing gum, Witness Elkins sang loud and clear. As one who had served time for crimes ranging from assault with intent to kill to possession of narcotics, he easily qualified as an expert witness on Portland racketeering...