Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Rascal." A little after midnight, 400 Chinese attacked in a businesslike skirmish line. It was the first wave of a sustained, methodical assault by more than 1,000 Chinese whose commander wanted Bunker Hill. The enemy infantry charged up the open ground, ducking behind rocks and bushes. They ran single file up a six-foot trench that debouched in front of a row of Marine foxholes. They ran through a screen-of flying earth and metal thrown up by all the U.N. guns within range of the hill...
Critic. In Toledo, George E. Miscovich, fed up with TV, was charged with assault & battery after his wife complained that he fired nine times at their flickering TV screen, missed, fired twice at her, missed again...
...last week each was sentenced to 2½ years at hard labor. It was the first sentence pronounced on foreigners since Japan regained her independence last April. The judge was careful to point out that the British tars got only half the minimum prescribed by Japanese law for assault and robbery...
Last week, in Whiteville, the Klan got the hardest legal flogging in its history. Superior Court Judge Clawson Williams sentenced Wizard Hamilton, who had pleaded guilty, to four years in prison for conspiracy to assault. Fifteen of Hamilton's sheet-wearers got sentences averaging three years each, and 49 others were fined a total of $18,250. Even Hamilton's top lieutenant in Columbus County, Ex-Con stable Early Brooks, already sentenced to prison, was glad to see the wizard get it. "Somebody ought to be assigned to whip hell outa him," said Brooks...
...splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with thousands of Saxon archers hurling themselves across the moat and swarming up the granite-grey walls while the Normans shower boulders down on them from the battlements...