Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confession, for Shea to hitchhike to Miami, visit several downtown bars, ride a bus to the airport, try to steal a car, get caught in the act by Mary Meslener and then murder her. Not only was Shea later unable to point out the parking lot where the original assault took place, but a palm print found in the murder car belonged to neither Shea nor the victim nor her husband. At Shea's first trial, the state did not disclose this fact-or the discovery of the victim's wallet in a military installation with which Shea...
ANTIPOLLUTION. Urging a massive assault on water pollution, the President cited "one ultimate goal: to clean all of America's rivers." Johnson proposed that local, state or interstate compacts be formed "to clean and preserve entire river basins, from their sources to their mouths," and that the Federal Government supply 30% of the funds needed to establish sewage-disposal units along their banks...
...complex north of Saigon last week carried a typical lamentation: "Oh, what hard days! One has to stay in a tunnel, eat cold rice with salt, drink unboiled water!" That was the last entry. Next day, Tran Bang, the 29-year-old diarist, was killed in an American assault on the once-inviolable underground world of the Viet Cong...
...youths beating up a policeman in New York City last summer, he slammed on his brakes, jumped out of the bus to fight the attackers, and suffered assorted facial wounds in the process. Later he spent seven days testifying against two of the youths, who were ultimately convicted of assault. For his trouble, Randazzo had his pay docked $232. Because the fight was in the street rather than on his bus, ruled the City Transit Authority, the law-defending driver was on his own time each and every minute he spent in court...
...squeal on one another? Goldberg himself feels that the offense should be limited to serious crimes, "perhaps only serious crimes against the person." All Americans, he says, "are familiar with their legal duty to report serious traffic accidents to the police. It is about time we consider violent assault on persons as important as automobile crashes...