Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Friday, in a demonstration partially inspired by an alleged assault upon a gay Mather resident, Defeat Homophobia, a campus gay, lesbian and bisexual rights organization, staged a "kiss-in" in the Mather dining hall to "protest violence with love...
...sewer system, inspiring fear and loathing around the city. The rodents stream past Faneuil Hall, invading the festive food booths of Quincy Market. Soon the rats spread across Boston Common to the Massachusetts statehouse and move into the town houses in tony Back Bay. As panic rises, the assault becomes the biggest threat to the Boston area since Paul Revere warned that the British were coming...
...arrivals. -- The trial of Oliver North is finally about to begin. -- Secretary of State James Baker discovers that striped pants go on one leg at a time. -- California's "Governor Moonbeam" is back in politics. -- New Time polls: Bush is up, Tower is down, and the urge to control assault rifles is rising...
...origins is guaranteed to offend any true Muslim. Rushdie points out that his work is fictional and the two most offensive chapters merely recount the demented dreams of one of its characters. But in the eyes of believers, both historical and religious truth have come under an unprecedented assault. Their reaction is especially harsh because Rushdie was raised a Muslim. Says Professor Georges Sabagh, director of the center for Near Eastern studies at UCLA: "He's engaged in the worst kind of blasphemy. He's a renegade, an apostate...
...slapped a lien on his 62-acre spread on rural Beech Island, about ten miles outside Augusta, and he was forced to auction it off. His eight-year marriage to Adrienne, his third wife, has been tempestuous. Last April she filed suit against him for assault, then dropped the charge. (Among other things, he allegedly ventilated her $35,000 black mink coat with bullets...