Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's first talking magazine" prepared last week to assault the ears of the reading public. Hear, a new 35? movie-fan bimonthly, will have pliable acetate records embedded in its front and back covers. By punching out the perforated record and playing it on a 78 r.p.m. phonograph, the fan will be able to hear his favorite star's very own voice. The first issue, with 300,000 copies already run off, will hit the newsstands early next month carrying recorded interviews with Tony Curtis and Jane Powell. For fans who can read, Hear also offers such...
...become an obsolete conception, and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. The free world today is stronger and peace is more secure because so many free nations courageously recognize the now-demonstrated fact that their own peace and safety would be endangered by assault on freedom elsewhere...
...institution! You can't drag an institution down!" Then Mae pointed to her chaise longue and barked at Mickey: "Lay down! Go on, lay down!" Whimpered Mr. Universe: "I don't want to lay down, Miss West." Mr. California's assault trial was set for late this month, and Mr. Universe was suing for $50,000. At week's end, Mickey flew to New York City and Daisy Mae Mansfield...
...attack against academic freedom has diminished. This past year saw fewer firings or suspensions of teachers for left-wing, supposedly subversive, or "uncooperative" activities than any similar period since the assault upon unorthodox educators began in about 1949. Congress seemed more interested in the contacts of the Secretary of the Air Force than in those of college professors, and conducted its investigations accordingly...
Worried lest the weather beat him again, Maki sent his men scurrying upward before early monsoons. They made a base camp at 24,000 ft. and rested for their predawn assault. Near the summit the air was dead calm, and the climbers hacked steps that took them up the final 2,658 ft. in a scant six hours. On the sun-drenched summit they stayed long enough to take pictures and offer Buddhist prayers. Two days later, a second team climbed the peak...