Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroy a nation's capacity and will to retaliate. Only our ability and our announced willingness to take decisive action during the present period might still resolve the issue between world freedom and world slavery. Soon the Kremlin will be militarily ready to launch a large-scale surprise assault on the United States. Our current strength in air power and nuclear weapons, thus far the major deterrent to all-out war, has not been exploited in our reaction to continued local aggression...
...avoiding a general war. Among his reasons: fighting has stopped in Korea and Indo-China; explosive disputes have been settled in Suez, Iran and Guatemala. He said that the settlements give the free world a better chance to "build a structure that will really be impervious to Communist assault." Said he: "I believe if we do this intelligently, work effectively toward the end, there will...
...World War II Puchoz fought on the Russian front-but K-2 proved harsher still. On June 21 the Mule died of pneumonia, at 19,000 feet. He was buried near the grave of U.S. Geologist Arthur Gilkey. who was swept away by an avalanche during the 1953 U.S. assault...
...crouched in tents, often with half the canvas hanging over the slope for lack of level ground. K-2 gave no quarter, and after many days of heartbreak, they were driven back down to 25,000 feet. There the expedition reorganized, and Desio sent the fittest to try the assault again...
Small Talk. In El Centro, Calif., charged with assault with a deadly weapon for hitting Joe Gilbert over the head with a beer mug "because he was mumbling in his beer," Virgil Slimp, 26, had the charge reduced to simple assault when he was able to prove that Gilbert made a habit of mumbling in his beer...