Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often high. The great Galveston blow of 1900 took 7,000 lives; a "killer hurricane" that struck Florida and the West Indies in 1928 left 4,000 dead in its wake. In India, where the whirling warm-water storms are called "cyclones," 11,000 Bengalis perished in a 1942 assault. Last week, as Hurricane Beulah-the third most powerful blow ever to hit Texas-slammed into the populous Rio Grande Valley and coursed its crushing way inland, only ten deaths were reported-one of them a 15-year-old girl surfer swept from her board while braving Beulah...
...send a six-member delegation to Nigeria to offer advice on ways to end the civil war. Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somalian diplomats took the occasion to arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands of black "freedom fighters" who seek to overthrow the regime. As for the Congo's white mercenaries, entrenched in the border town of Bukavu, the heads of state demanded...
...John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second husband William Wakeman, 44, by pointing a .22 pistol at him, firing one shot into his back when he sneered that she hadn't the nerve to shoot, now stands accused of "aggravated assault" while her husband lies in Good Samaritan Hospital permanently paralyzed from the waist down...
Close to 50 swimmers have tried the crossing and been defeated by the strong currents and numbing cold. Last week Stewart Evans, 41, an Army lieutenant colonel who had spent five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...
Aaron d'Aragon, a 15-year-old boy gang leader, is doomed on arrival at the Golden Gate Institute of Industry & Reform, a prison farm for adolescents. There, status is based on ability to humiliate weaker kids by sexual assault. A buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best...