Word: assaultive
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...Young people took this message to heart all across the country. Angry protesters filled the streets at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution’s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike” that shut down the university...
...Green, when she protected a 2-1 Harvard lead in the third period while a suddenly pourous Crimson defense fell victim to penalties and lackluster play. Dartmouth launched a 13-shot flurry at Kessler in the frame, but the Harvard goalie kept her composure and withstood the Dartmouth assault to preserve the victory for her team.Kessler’s resilience manifested itself once again after Harvard dropped its first game of the season, 4-1, to New Hampshire—the team that the Crimson had previously replaced atop the national rankings—heading into winter break...
What they didn’t see coming was a game that was essentially over by halftime. The Bulldogs’ secondary, ranked first in the nation in pass efficiency defense, wilted under the steady assault of senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and his receivers. On the game’s opening drive, Pizzotti hit sophomore Matt Luft for a 40-yard touchdown strike that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead and instant momentum just 1:08 into the contest...
...seeing a full frontal and rear assault," a peacekeeper screamed into his radio as white U.N. helicopters dropped down into their base in the town and whisked civilians and other aid workers out. Mortar, artillery and rocket exchanges flattened much of the market town over the next few days. As 60,000 civilians fled into the bush, others darted into their mud huts to retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said...
...child. "I'm sure there's a difference between the way Jesse Jackson raises his kids, Louis Farrakhan raises his kids and my parents raised me," he says. Ruth-Arlene Howe, a law professor at Boston College, counters that efforts to ensure race-blind adoptions are "a major, major assault on black families...