Word: assaultive
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...Hamas gathering arms for self-defense against Israel, as its representatives claim? Or is the militant Palestinian organization planning a major assault against Israel, possibly with the help of America's nemesis Iran...
...Others might run screaming from this jackhammer assault; Loesser ran and embraced it. He didn't want subtlety, he wanted salesmanship, and Betty has the pertest peddler around. He wrote more than a dozen songs for her, all to be found in The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser . They started with the 1943 "Murder, He Says," about a girl's jive-talking beau; during the number she jitterbugs, seesaws her shoulders, puts her hand to her tummy and sashays sexily - all stops out for Betty...
...Iraqis--Sunni or Shi'ite--who openly embrace the presence of U.S. troops four years after the invasion. But the situation in Diyala shows why the vast majority--as many as 70%, according to a poll released on March 20--don't want them to leave. With the assault on Qubah, U.S. forces have killed roughly 70 suspected insurgents since re-entering the river valley on Feb. 27. They estimate that perhaps 100 more remain in the village of Zaganiyah, where some stragglers from Qubah may have fled and which U.S. commanders say they must eventually retake as part...
...valley, quickly put pleasantries aside. Huddling with the two officers, Hamid unfolded a detailed map of Zaganiyah drawn by hand on pink construction paper and pointed out which streets were occupied by insurgents and where arms caches were likely to be in case Few's troops decided to assault the village...
...plant, and that there will be no aircraft involved," he said. "If that's true, if the bad guys cooperate with our assumptions, then we're OK." If not, he says, the scenario could be grim. Lochbaum cites a report written by his organization that claims a successful assault on Indian Point could result in the immediate deaths of as many as 44,000 people, with nuclear fallout eventually causing cancer in half a million people or more...