Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aroused by Senator Joe McCarthy's sweeping assault on U.S. foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles last week spearheaded the Administration's decision to fight back. Had McCarthy limited his bid for power to the issue of Communists in Government. Dulles might not have felt compelled to act. But McCarthy in his nationwide radio-TV speech had also berated the Administration for sending "perfumed notes" to Allied nations, "following the style of the Truman-Acheson regime," while doing nothing about the Allies' trade with China...
...Down There." Root's plans for an assault on the record last week were carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving friends who planned to station themselves at various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with...
...court had sat for 17 hours, of which 14 hours were pure Mossadegh. On the seventh day, the justices retired to ponder whether they had the right to try him in the first place. They concluded that they did have the right, and returned manfully to face the next assault from Mohammed Mossadegh...
...threatened once more, with little over two minutes remaining in the game. They took possession of the ball on their own 45, and drove to the Yale 30, with a 12-yard run by Nager highlighting the attack. A pass interception by Yale's John Logan, however, ended the assault...
...Gold Cup (won by the Charfran Stable's Crafty Admiral). Out of the money only once in 30 starts and unbeaten in this, his four-year-old season, Tom Fool retires with total winnings of $570,165, sixth highest in history (after Citation, Stymie, Armed, Native Dancer and Assault...