Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation of hungry cynics. Last week President Nixon took note of the paradox of having 11.5 million people verging on starvation in what is glibly known as an affluent society. It was a marked turnabout for the President, who only days before was reportedly anxious to postpone any organized assault on hunger for at least a year. "That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable," said Nixon. "The moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time...
...from whence they launch the majority of their raids. The East Bank of the Jordan River is virtually a no man's land, and many of the country's villages have been heavily damaged by retaliating Israeli jets. The fedayeen swagger openly through the streets of Amman, Kalashnikov assault rifles at the ready, in defiance of an agreement between their leaders and the King that they will submit to civil law. Eventually, Hussein must face the cruel choice of Israeli devastation of his kingdom if he does not curb the fedayeen, or civil war with the Palestinians if he tries...
Judge Edward M. Viola, who presided last month over the criminal trespass trials of 174 University Hall protestors, will hear charges of larceny, assault and battery, possession of narcotics, and malicious destruction of property. All of the charge may carry jail sentence upon conviction...
Those charged are: Michael J. Bishop '70, larceny from a person, punishable by a sentence of up of five years; John E. Cross '69, assault and battery, carrying in a maximum sentence of two and one half years; Mark Ling, a Cambridge taxi drivers, malicious destruction of property maximum of five years; Carl D. Offner, a graduate student in mathematics, assault and battery; and Michael Prokosch '70, possession of narcotics...
...commitment to the cults which will spring up. The only catch being the Cult is mutually exclusive of the life that surrounds it. Enter the Cult and you become disparaging and intolerant of the Outsiders. And so Wolfe's Americans--both in his essays and his cartoons--make their assault on the Cult of their choice with a frightening determination, at once both grim and fierce. What it all amounts to is a grand nervous breakdown on a nationwide scale. It's to Tom Wolfe's credit, that he makes such madness attractive, if not downright respectable...