Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime Actress Kay Williams, with her jeweled slipper): "Indecent assault and battery" while he and Georgia were fellow hospital patients, with a connecting bathroom, last December. After bursting into her room in a smock so scanty that "he was exposed in both directions," testified Georgia, Sugar Daddy Spreckels wrestled with her lustily and then, outnumbered by three nurses, leaped atop...
...extra $1,000,000 appropriation for the state's medical-school hospital, State Senator Jimmy Phillips babbled an hour and nine minutes beyond Morse's record. Then the Texas Senate, 14-11, voted down the amendment, just as the U.S. Senate had voted against Morse in his assault on the tidelands oil bill...
...Israeli government charged Egypt with "premeditated assault." In mourning Patish, one Israeli told the U.N. investigators angrily: "Only cowards let murderers go unpunished." In Manhattan, the Security Council talked gravely of peace...
...borrowed emotions, his are honestly hot and angry. But his own feelings, often intemperate, work against him. Perhaps it is the revenge of an age of violence on those who mirror it, that they should themselves seem violent where they mean to be intense, should too often mistake blind assault for implacable pursuit...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Sandy Saddler, an animated skeleton who has changed prizefighting into assault with all available weapons-feet, forearms, elbows and head-pummeled an overmatched contender named Red Top Davis for 15 rounds, and hung on to what passes for the featherweight championship of the world...