Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jones charged afterwards that he complied with the officer's original demands and was then harassed and beaten for no apparent reason. He plans to file counter-charges accusing Patrolman Curtis of assault...
...teach subjects like remedial reading. Since Fry began to bypass Chicago Mayor Dick Daley's administration, the police have gone out of their way to harass the Rangers and Fry's church. Last week at McClellan's hearings, some Chicago types weighed in with a sulfurous assault on the preacher, his project...
...after day, night after night, U.S. B-52s rumbled over the hills outside the Marine perimeter while the garrison fought off probes and small infantry assaults. By the end of the 77-day siege, the bombers had dropped more than 100,000 tons of explosives, about one-sixth the total used during all of the Korean War. The raids probably helped to prevent the big ground assault that everyone expected. The attack never came, and finally, in late March, the pressure eased. The bothersome question remained of whether Khe Sanh had been a massive diversion to pin down U.S. troops...
Instead, Prosecutor Ramsey relied on the red-stained underpants found a mile from the scene of the crime. They were smeared with the girl's blood, he told the jury, and discarded by Miller after the assault...
This final twist-Lynd ends his slim outline at the Civil War-brings American radicals surprisingly close to what he regards as the final spiral in their evolution, "a frontal assault on the authority of the state." Enter the radicals of the 1960s right on cue, taking literally the nearly 200-year-old advice of the influential English political philosopher William Godwin, who declared that established authority has no more right to regulate an individual's actions than to regulate his thoughts...