Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime Prevention Bureau of the City Police Department, the following ten, with the number of complaints in parentheses, were the most frequent: larceny (53), destruction of property (46), stubbornness (42), trespassing (38), running away (36), using motor vehicle without authority (30), attempted larceny (26), disturbing the peace (24), assault and battery (19), and gaming with dice and cards...
Captain Chouteau Dyer continued his assault on the record book as he tied his own Harvard record in the 100-yard freestyle and broke the Army pool record for the 50-yard freestyle, to lead the Crimson to a close 49-37 win over the Cadets Saturday...
...strong supporter of N.A.T.O. and the Atlantic Treaty, Gaitskell sharply attacked Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in a speech in the House of Commons for the British-French intervention in Egypt, calling the government's move an "assault on the free principles which have governed British foreign policy for at least the last ten years." He called the Anglo-American alliance "the basis for maintaining the peace...
Cause of Cholon's unwonted somberness was a frontal assault by South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem on a problem common to all Southeast Asian nations: the threat posed by unassimilated colonies of overseas Chinese. In South Viet Nam, where they make up only one-tenth of the population, Chinese control nearly two-thirds of the economy. Though many come from families that have been in the country for centuries, almost none have taken out Vietnamese citizenship...
...until his interpreter, a picturesque chink in U.S. defenses who is known as Sakini (Marlon Brando), explains that during 800 years of foreign occupation the Okinawans have learned to cheer whoever is in charge, no matter what he says. The captain is badly shaken -and so begins an alarming assault on American theory by Okinawan practice, a shameless corruption of democracy by the rule of the people...