Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suddenly disturbed by a violent explosion, which, on examination, proved to have been caused by a large cannon-cracker which some reckless student had fastened to the door of one of the rooms and then ignited. Although there was some ground for this outrage, the victim of the assault being a musical friend, the perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they deserve the name, disfigured one of the rooms of Thayer by branding...
...report comes from the Law School that the Beck-Holworthy club has been discussing whether a clock which strikes the hour can be arrested for assault and battery...
...nervous players (and all our boys are preternaturally nervous), and besides it irritates the throat and predisposes to the lung troubles so rife in this climate. Any player who accidentally strikes another shall be at once arrested, taken to the Municipal Court and fined one hundred dollars for aggravated assault. The "gentlemanliness" of the game shall be preserved, and the wearied players carried home in coaches...
...procession was loudly cheered at various points on the route, and it was thought that the affair was to pass off without a jar, when suddenly, as the chief marshaless and her staff were about to descend the stairs leading to the ground floor, they were assaulted with orange peel, and showers of water by a body of hoodlumettes ensconced upon the stairs above. This assault was the signal for little less than a riot; hairpins were drawn on both sides, and a general scrimmage seemed unavoidable. The attacking party seemed to be overawed, however, by the superior numbers...
...fought without results. Then comes days of fighting back and forth and of making breastworks. But all was of no avail to the Southerners, who again fell back to Kensaw Mountain. This, by previous labor, had been made a regular fortress. Sherman, to encourage his troops, made an assault but could not take the main works. He had again to resort to flanking tactics. In this manner the enemy was forced back and soon the city of Atlanta was in sight. Johnston was then relieved, and Hood took his place. Hood tried by desperate attacks on three separate days...