Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuban journalists, who in the past have stoutly upheld the beauty of Cuban women, the virility of Cuban men and the fame of Havana as a city of tradition and culture as well as of rum and rumbas, manned their typewriters again last week. This time the assault was on film: the sequence in Guys and Dolls that shows Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and friends living it up with Havana bawds and bravos in a lowdown nightspot...
Reading only the first and last paragraphs and leaving the rest to be read out in Hindi by a sweating interpreter, Bulganin and Khrushchev used the forum for a combined 90-minute assault on the Western democracies. "The spirit of Geneva causes indigestion to certain persons," cried Khrushchev. "Certain circles in some states are still trying to follow the notorious policy ... of threats by atomic weapons...
...that "somebody must have put something in my drinks." As the Twig Is Bent. In Miami, ex-Seabee Francis Osborn, 26, spotted a bulldozer parked near a street-repair job, climbed aboard and happily chased ten policemen about the city streets, explained testily as he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon: "I just wanted to see if I could still run one." If Thy Brother Offend Thee. In Terre Haute, Ind., Frederick F. Wendholt, Bible salesman for the House of Harmony Co., angrily called police, complained that fellow Bible salesman Robert L. Allaman had assaulted him and tried...
...talons, a wooden hairbrush and a lighted cigarette, finally ripped the buttons off her blouse. Said Susan later: "She made an insulting remark, and it infuriated me. I went toward her, and a wrestling match ensued . . . I'm red-haired and Irish, you know." After swearing out an assault-and-battery complaint against Susan, Jil, whose good fight had done her movie career no harm, purred testily: "I don't want this bad publicity. But why should I sit back and let this woman clobber me?" Before he galloped off to a hideout, Cowboy Barry drawled fair...
...sent to Matteawan asylum, and for the next 16 years was in and out of confinement, once after a sexual assault on a 19-year-old boy. He died of a heart attack in 1947. Evelyn (who got very little of Thaw's money until his death, when he left her $10,000) drifted from big vaudeville circuits into the little "speaks," and from there into a series of petty failures-a tea room, a cosmetic business-that were interspersed with two attempts at suicide. Now 70, she has recently been teaching ceramics in Los Angeles...