Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still capable of tongue-lashing friends and foes alike, as he did recently in The Demon of Progress in the Arts, a sharp assault on abstract painting and sculpture...
...with publication of his first novel, Tarr, Lewis sprang suddenly into true prominence. Tarr was not only his first large-scale assault on woolly vaporings about love and life, it was (and still is) one of the greatest comic novels ever written in English. None of Lewis' later novels-even The Revenge for Love, The Apes of God, The Childermass-has ousted Tarr from first place, but each displays uniquely the mingled anger, intellectual probity and hair-raising humor that are the stamp of a Lewis opus. What is most curious and most defective about all these novels...
...into production. The vaccine works on a principle that has already provided protection against such traditional plagues as smallpox and yellow fever. When they attack human beings or other mammals, most viruses stimulate the invaded system to manufacture tiny protein particles "called antibodies. If the system under assault does not have enough of these antibodies, or cannot manufacture them fast enough, the victim may die, or, with polio, suffer permanent crippling. Polio virus is unusual in that there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there...
...kidnaped him in Sian in the famed 1936 incident, Chiang refused to make any concessions: "If I should try to save my life today and forget the welfare of the nation . . . the nation will perish while I live," he told the Young Marshal. When the Japanese attacked in full assault in 1937, Chiang retreated behind the Yangtze gorges to Chungking, and fought with no help from the U.S. or any ally, doggedly sure that eventually the West would stand at his side. His stubbornness tied down more than 1,000,000 Japanese troops who might otherwise have swept over Asia...
...Liotta, a brawler out of Boston's North End who fights under the name of Tony DeMarco, delighted a home-town crowd with a 14-round assault that knocked Welterweight Champion Johnny Saxton senseless and separated him from his tainted title (TIME...