Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losses were one jet and one soldier, and they claimed to have knocked out four guerrilla bases and much of Jordan's ar tillery. The battle was, declared Chief of Staff Haim Bar-lev, "a blow greater than the one of Feb. 15"-when Israel unleashed a similar assault. But it is hardly likely to stop the Jordanian terrorists, who are now the heroes of the Arab world, from continuing their own destructive blows against Israel. Since the Israelis have threatened to answer each new terrorist raid with an attack on Jordan, there is every likelihood that the battle...
...Course. Addressing businessmen, civic leaders and publishers at a State Department briefing the next night, Johnson continued in the same vein. "Let no single American mistake the enemy's major offensive now!" he cried. "That offensive is aimed squarely at the citizens of America. It is an assault to crack America's will. It is designed to trouble and worry and confuse others." But, he said, his jaw set, "We have set our course. We will pursue it just as long as aggression threatens it. And make no mistake about it -America will prevail...
Dirksen's assault on the ethics package was all too successful. Clark and Case narrowly passed another amen ment restricting the use of Senate "slush funds," only to have it overturned next day by a substitute, sponsored by Tex as' Ralph Yarborough, giving sanction to the practice of accepting contributions to run Senators' offices - the sort of practice that Illinois' Charles Percy abandoned last fall because of unfavor able publicity...
...their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like "elements" of 30 to 40 men, each of which takes orders only from a central high command. It also tor-bids its members to use their correct names, assigns each a number or pseudonym instead...
Remarkably, through a combination of moxie and Marx Brothers, she makes the most mundane chores seem like an adventure in the bush country. When a straggling vine snags her hair net, she accuses it of assault. "A rampaging hanging plant chasing you around is no good," she says sternly, and starts clipping away with her shears. This leads into a lesson on containing aggressive philodendron: wrap the dangling stems around the base of the plant, puncture the skin and pin the stems down with hairpins so they will sprout anew. Her method for watering hanging plants without dribbling...