Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Training has corrected many technical weaknesses of the naturally courageous Greek soldier: he no longer opens fire with a rifle at targets 1,000 yards away, or with a machine gun at anything in sight, and he has learned to keep close behind his own artillery barrage in an assault. Sometimes he keeps too close. In a recent practice barrage with live artillery ammunition, five riflemen were killed...
...months ago, as U.N. forces swept up the Korean peninsula in the wake of a shattered North Korean army, General Douglas MacArthur summarily called on the enemy "forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." The Red reply was the massive Chinese assault from Manchuria which divided the U.N. forces and drove them south of the 38th parallel...
...more open to attack and pressure than it had been before. Chinese policy seemed to be forcing the U.N. toward a major political decision: U.N. policymakers would have to decide whether to try to win the war by striking directly at Red China, e.g., by naval blockade and air assault, or to face the certain prospect of a long, bloody stalemate in Korea...
...toward the Church-as-God-intended-it." The ecumenical movement does not proceed like a crusade, with banners and trumpet calls. It has grown with the pace and persistence of natural things-quietly, slowly, following Knes of flow and least resistance, taking opposition points by envelopment rather than frontal assault...
Spiked Shoes. In Bellefontaine, Ohio, Mrs. Helen McCullough, charged with jabbing the heel of her slipper into her husband's face, was booked for "assault & battery with a deadly weapon...