Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that nothing will end the tragedy more effectively than jobs, jobs and more jobs. So are most other Negro leaders. "Teenagers with jobs," says Randolph, "don't throw Molotov cocktails through store windows." Wilkins is trying to get more construction jobs for Negroes with "a massive assault on discriminatory hiring practices," has urged some 1,500 N.A.A.C.P. branches to picket federal and state building projects worth $76.5 billion unless more openings are made available...
...twelve eager mountaineers who struck out last month to climb Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak, the adventure did not seem too formidable. Since the first assault on McKinley in 1903, only four climbers had died on its slopes, while more than 100 people have attained the summit. Thanks in part to the National Park Service, which firmly winnows some 300 applications a year, at least half a dozen expeditions annually make a safe and often successful try to ascend Denali-the Great One-as Yukon Indians call the mountain...
Mindful of McKinley's menace, Expedition Leader Joseph F. Wilcox, 24, encamped his dozen climbers 18,000 ft. high between McKinley's north and south peaks. After Wilcox and his assault team scaled the peak, he set out with four weary companions on the long trek down. Seven others, including the expedition's strongest mountaineers, opted to assault the pinnacle...
...carry 60 people or ten tons of cargo - 51 tons more than Cana da's de Havilland Caribou, the largest operational STOL-type transport. At 270 m.p.h., it also flies faster than any helicopter and has a greater maximum range: 500 miles. Developed as a mil itary assault transport, it can land fully loaded at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h...
Shure is a pianist who likes his music meaty. At this Dudley House recital he cose to assault two of the most awesome pinnacles of the piano literature, the Schubert Sonata in Bb, Op. posthumous, and the Variations on a Theme of Diabelli by Beethoven. Reaction was mixed and tended to the extremes, but there was general admiration for the sheer endurance feat of getting through all those notes...