Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military did not accept the Gavin concept then, and they are not enthusiastic now about the prospects of deescalation. They argue that maximum pressure is nothing more than an "active defense." Unfortunatelv, the line between attack and defense is not always clear. The military, for example, regarded the bloody assault on Hamburger Hill last May as essentially a defensive action, though it cost the U.S. 84 killed and 480 wounded...
Gromyko went through the ritualistic assault on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, but the language was less vituperative than in the past. What was new and heartening was his hint that the Russians are "ready" for strategic-arms-limitation talks and would participate in four-power negotiations to resolve the problem of West Berlin. "We are in favor of the development of good relations with the U.S.," said Gromyko. "It is clear that our countries are divided by profound class differences. But the Soviet Union always believed that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. could find common language on the questions...
...were also responsible for the third-and last-debacle. Agents called the Arcani, or secret ones (whom Divine identifies as "part of the Roman CIA"), apparently took bribes, conspiring with enemy tribesmen who were forming a broad anti-Roman alliance in Britain. In A.D. 367, the wall fell by assault. This time the legions did not return. Within a few decades, they had left Britain altogether...
...free medical clinic. Some of them also carry machetes and talk tough about the Anglo. Reies Lopez Tijerina, 45, is trying to establish a "Free City State of San Joaquin" for Chicanos on historic Spanish land grants in New Mexico; at the moment, while his appeal on an assault conviction is being adjudicated, he is in jail for burning a sign in the Carson National Forest. Denver's Rudolfo ("Corky") Gonzales, 40, an ex-prizefighter, has started a "Crusade for Justice" to make the city's 85,000 Mexican Americans la causa-conscious...
...speech. The two characters' imperviousness to this, as to the physical beauty of their setting (stressed by the camera's motion), becomes more pointed in a ten-minute continuos track which follows their car as it passes a line of autos stopped on the highway. The horns that assault one throughout the scene act on them only as low-level irritation. When they come on the front of the line and discover that a car wreck (corpses strewn on the bank) is the cause of the delay, they simply accelerate past; the camera's move into high-angle, giving...