Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Microcephalic Assault...
...horror of atomic and later of hydrogen warfare burned more deeply into Britain's consciousness, the need became more insistent (every Briton knows the statistic that four to eight well-placed nuclear bombs would just about wipe out his island). As the years went by and the assault never came, the belief became easier...
...into the international alliance. The votes of regional cooperatives and Communist collectives (each would get one to ten votes, according to membership) in the satellite countries would be a decisive step toward eventual control of the I.C.A. But leaders of the cooperatives in the West were ready for the assault. To be admitted to I.C.A. membership, a cooperative must follow certain principles laid down by the world organization. One of these is that a cooperative society must determine its own policy rather than have policies dictated by the state-an impossible condition for any Communist organization...
...years, though never permitting them to operate as a legal party. By week's end the new regime had arrested 100 Communist leaders, and Red-led violence in Rio appeared to be under control, even though two more had been killed and scores wounded in a mob assault on the Air Ministry. In São Paulo authorities announced that they would prosecute the Communist-controlled newspaper Noticias de Hoje for inciting attacks on U.S. company offices...
...first water trial; as a photographer snapped away, the plane's bow gaped open like the mouth of a giant whale, revealing an enormous cavern for cargo. The So-ton craft, pictures of which were released last week, was the R3Y-2 "Flying LST," built for beach-assault operations by General Dynamics' Convair division. To pull away from a beach or dock the pilot,simply reverses propellers; the ship needs a run of only 30 seconds to take...