Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that both Christ and Paul allowed the possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters God's. The government, of course, could not agree. Priesthood or no, both the Justice Department and the State of Maryland indicted the unruly Berrigans on counts-including sabotage, robbery and assault-that could send them to prison for 54 years. Pending trial, Daniel Berngan was allowed to go free on bail. But not Philip. At the time of the Catonsville caper, he was already awaiting sentence for raiding Baltimore's central draft board and pouring blood on its files...
...full cost of their housing, it should be welcome news that the reasons for high prices are beginning to be recognized. For states and localities, whose shortcomings have helped create the problem, as well as for all segments of the private building industry, Washington's move toward an assault on costs presents a challenge as well as an opportunity to do all that can be done to make the price right...
...morning. Although full details would not be known until the still-incomplete surgery ended, several doctors interviewed on television were optimistic about Kennedy's chances for survival. They cited his failure to lose consciousness immediately, a report confirmed by videotape shots of his face shortly after the assault, as well as the continued stability of his pulse and respiration...
...court's decision involved a Negro named Gary Duncan, a small ferryboat captain in New Orleans who was charged with simple assault after he got into an argument with four white teenagers. Though two Negro witnesses testified that Duncan had merely touched one of the whites, the whites were unanimous in their contention that he had slapped one of the men on the elbow. Duncan asked for a jury trial, which the Louisiana constitution requires in cases that may involve capital punishment or imprisonment at hard labor. Since he faced a maximum of two years without hard labor...
After the drilling comes the killing. While artillery shells resound overhead, the men-now called "The Devil's Brigade" by fearful Germans-begin their assault on a steep mountain in Italy, the peak of which is enemy territory. There is room at the top, but along the way many good devils die, and Holden comes to realize the cost of his merciless goading. As a mainstream tough-and-rumble military movie, The Devil's Brigade-which is based on actual events-offers few new sights or insights. After nearly three decades of World War II films...