Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian army, delivered a crushing blow to the Jordanian army, captured most of the relevant parts of the Sinai Peninsula and the west bank of the Jordan, and we have destroyed almost totally the air forces of four countries." Eager young Israeli paratroopers prepared for a jump assault on Sharm el Sheikh, only to be advised that the Israeli navy had arrived first?and the Egyptians had fled. The disappointed troopers disembarked like tourists from planes that landed unopposed on the Egyptian airstrip...
...leadership, many fear, will give the initiative to organized extremist groups. Community participation will be unrepresentative and irresponsible, with elections offering boundless opportunities for corruption. Some reformers have concluded that school restructuring will be meaningless unless accompanied by extensive urban renewal and adult education--in other words, a broad assault on all the problems of the ghetto...
...helicopter visits to combat areas. His blue eyes often misted over the sight of wounded Marines; yet they could freeze like an arctic night at the sight of an officer derelict in duty. A general and more than one full colonel were booted out of Viet Nam under the assault of Walt's sharp temper. Yet to those who did their job, he was unfailingly considerate...
...enemy was so deeply dug into a valley floor that the Marines, despite reinforcements and withering air and artillery strikes, failed to dislodge the Reds in all-day fighting. So, in the dark of night, a Marine assault force stormed in, supported by AC-47 Dragonships. Next morning the sun rose on the bodies of 450 enemy dead littering the valley, at the cost of 54 Marines killed...
...that comprise I Corps. After the Reds struck in a brief terror attack on the ancient imperial capital of Hue, U.S. Marines from the Seventh Fleet launched Operation Bear Bite. A force of some 2,000 leathernecks streamed ashore 21 miles northeast of Hue in an amphibious and heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food and supplies, within a three-mile radius of their Con Thien base camp, just south of the DMZ. Near the Marine base of Dong...