Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the shooting, another woman and two children reported that Miller had also attempted to assault them. A coroner's jury found Mrs. Krone not guilty...
...long fight for more security, organized labor is now poised for an assault on a new objective: the guaranteed annual wage. Though unions have talked about the G.A.W. for years, there was little real enthusiasm for it while jobs were plentiful and overtime commonplace. But now, with unemployment brushing 4,000,000, union leaders in the mass-production industries are ready for the big push...
...planned. If the Luftwaffe had been decisively bested in September 1940, argues Kesselring, it could not have continued hitting British industrial targets for the rest of that year and the spring of 1941. German planes were squandered, he admits, when they might better have been saved for a combined assault by sea, air and land; this, according to Kesselring, would have had a fine chance of victory. Why the invasion was not launched still puzzles the field marshal, but he chalks it up to Hitler's grudging fondness for the English and his hopes for a negotiated peace. Once...
...spokesman arrived at the press camp in Hanoi one night this week with stirring news "We may now consider," he said, "that the second phase of the battle for Dienbienphu is ended." This meant that 15,000 surrounded, bonetired French Union troops had again thrown back 40,000 Communists assaulting the rubble-dust fortress of Dienbienphu. The army of Red General Giap, torn by frightful casualties, was still coming in from the jungle and the hills, and a third great assault was abuilding. But so far, Dienbienphu had gallantly defended the hopes of the free world, and the tricolor still...
...Nairobi's supreme court, a 17-year-old Briton serving in the colony's emergency police force was found guilty of technical assault for tossing lighted matches at a Mau Mau suspect, and his Kikuyu assistant was convicted of pouring paraffin over the head of the suspect and setting him afire...