Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having lost more than 2,000 men since the ground war resumed last month, the Communists were less anxious last week to stand and fight. The elusive nature of the enemy has rarely been better demonstrated than in the U.S.-led assault on War Zone C, a 1,000-sq.-mi. pocket of swampland that bulges into Cambodia. The area, 75 miles northwest of Saigon, has for 20 years been Communism's major stronghold in South Viet Nam, and is believed to contain the national headquarters of the Viet Cong. In the hope of getting the Communists to stand...
Giving the Lie. Yet the Viet Cong made themselves scarce, unwilling to hold anything that the attackers wanted to take. Even before the assault began, most of them apparently fled across the border into Cambodia-giving the lie to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's statement last week that his country was not being used as a Viet Cong sanctuary. As the Americans, aided by South Vietnamese forces, moved cautiously through the area, the ground was still so hot from napalm that the troops were unable to crouch; the only survivors of the scorched earth seemed to be millions of aggressive...
...minute he arrives in town, the farmer (Anthony Quinn) suffers the first assault on his indomitable optimism. On orders from the local chief of police (Gregoire Asian), who would like to tear up the mazere patch with the farmer's wife (Virna Lisi), the grinning lout is arrested and shipped off to a labor camp for Jews. "But I am not a Jew," he protests. "My son," an old Jew replies gently, "we live in a world where any human being can become a Jew at any moment." That seems to satisfy this pea-brained pollyanna, who is blissfully...
outlined such an assault in his youth message. For crime is often one visible effect of poverty, and economic deprivation in youth sows a huge harvest of blighted promise and lost opportunity...
...nature," Brooke explains. He has spent long hours on the Senate floor since his arrival, on occasion sitting as the only spectator while some colleague spun a solo speech. Unlike his freshmen classmates Percy and Hansen, he has not yet introduced any legislation. Nor does he expect to assault Senate tradition by making a floor speech soon. "I won't establish a record for speaking early," he says, "but I will not be bound by custom either. If I feel I must speak out, I will have no hesitation...