Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, April 17). There might be serious violence, perhaps out & out fighting between East and West. In defense, the U.S. was prepared to use police action at first-water-hoses or tear gas-and then, if necessary, machine guns. The Western powers would have to stand up against the assault, the State Department believed, for to lose Berlin would be to lose all of Europe...
...Woofferton (England), Munich, Tangier, Salonika, Honolulu and Manila. Voice stations are located in some exotic places: the transmitter in Tangier stands on a sultan's former hunting domain, and the slender blue-and-white transmitters near Manila rise elegantly from damp rice paddies. In a twice-daily air assault against Russian jamming, the Voice teams up with some 30 BBC transmitters. Voice broadcasts are also carried by domestic stations in more than 50 countries, including the French government network. The Voice is now building several more transmitters whose location, is still secret...
...Nationalist press claimed a victory after the first four days-6,000 Reds captured, up to 4,000 killed, the invasion assault blocked. In Hoihow, firecrackers popped jubilantly. Next day the celebration fizzled. The Communists had won again. On the sixth day after making their beachhead, the men of Lin Piao's Communist Fourth Field Army marched triumphantly into Hoihow. With what remained of his 160,000 defenders, Hsueh Yueh fell back hopelessly to Hainan's south coast...
...Hiya, Dollface!" Betty's all-out assault on an audience is a trademark that she carries into every appearance, public or private, that might conceivably make the world more Hutton-conscious and thus advance her career. Her clarionlike entrance into a restaurant ("Hiya, dollface! Hey, got my table?") is one of the digestive hazards of eating out in Hollywood. During a wartime bond tour, she stole the headlines in most of 20 cities from a trainload of more prominent stars by rushing to kiss the mayor on arrival; in one city she had to leap onto a police motorcycle...
King's X. In El Paso, Frederico Taron denied an assault charge by explaining: "I didn't hit anybody but my wife...