Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year. So he led his Foreign Affairs Committee in a scissoring, slashing assault on the mutual-security bill...
...laws be drafted to penalize homosexuality with children or when it affronts public decency, involves assault, violence, fraud or duress. In assessing penalty, "regard shall be paid to the physical and psychological condition of the offender...
Later there was the case of assault-the day the priest, armed with a hammer, chased a quack healer out of town. And a case of battery-the day Zamorano beat up a knife-brandishing thug. Worst of all, there was a political scandal...
...left the scene, the students began swarming back into Locust Street, and when the police reappeared, began throwing eggs and stones again. This time the police went after the rioters in earnest. Result: 116 students landed in the clink, and 28, charged with everything from disturbing the peace to assault and battery, were held for the grand jury...
...with arranging for arms drops testified that, late in the war, a Moranino aide confided to him drunkenly: "Now that we have the arms, we don't need you any more." A few weeks later Moranino's Reds again retreated abruptly in the midst of a German assault. The Allied mission was annihilated...