Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith met at Gibraltar aboard the assault ship H.M.S. Fearless for what Smith called "the last, last chance" of agreement before Rhodesia goes its own way. It was also a slim chance, since both men have made pledges that are difficult to retract. Smith has vowed that Rhodesia's 220,000 whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come...
Fortas finally became the hapless focus of conservative unrest over court decisions on pornography and the rights of criminal suspects. The attack developed into an assault on the whole Warren court, impairing its prestige severely in the process (see THE LAW). Last week the nomination that once looked like a sure thing went down to an embarrassing defeat...
Runyon, John Metzger and Ted Rumsey began the scoring assault with first period tallies. Yonni Chapman netted two more goals in the second quarter to give Harvard a comfortable lead at the half...
...guardians near the bottom. In most places, the pay for an experienced policeman is less than $7,000 a year, forcing many cops to moonlight and some to take bribes. Fear and loneliness are routine hazards. Last year 76 American policemen were killed and 10,770 injured by assault. "Everything you do is more or less on your own," says Christos Kasaras, a patrolman on Manhattan's West Side. "Trouble starts, and there you are." The average cop feels that he is unappreciated or even actively disliked by the public he serves. Very often he is right-and thus...
...River and Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest, the parting reverie, the mystical indulgence after the hurlyburly, the lightening of the load for a final assault on the summit...