Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...
...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...
...dangerous dispersion of U.S. forces on peripheral operations. He did not disguise the fact that he found hair-raising some brilliantly improvised British plans for commando-type raids on the German-held coasts of Europe. He felt that they might dissipate the grand design that culminated in the huge assault on the beachheads of Normandy. He was not a commando-minded man-and it was just as well...
...city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant interests, he has shattered many a lance. Yet his supply of new ones seems endless...
...Oberleutnant stares grimly at his wristwatch as machine-gun bullets twang overhead. A flare picks out highlights on the jackboots and bayonets of his -waiting assault troops. Then, with a wave of his Luger: "Vorwärts!" But the troops have been staring at their watches, too. Instead of charging, they march off-out of step-toward the canteen. "It's coffee-break time," says the squad leader to the Oberleutnant. "Take it up with the shop steward...