Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Work. Shelley Mann's all-out assault on every event within reach has caused plenty of poolside comment. But Stan Tinkham has a ready answer for his critics: "I'm called a nonconformist in my coaching techniques, but this time I think I know what I'm doing. Shelley is the temperamental type and thrives on hard work. It's better for her to be getting ready for two events than for one. Why, in some meets she's gone in three preliminaries, three finals and a relay all the same day, and even...
...priest himself, and when he turned to Communism, it was because he believed implicitly that it "would bring peace and social justice to our country. To me," said Italo Nofri, "Stalin was like God." Other Communists, he was soon to find, felt differently. Hearing the official assault on the Red deity after his death, Nofri was at first indignant, then puzzled, then racked with worry. At last he decided to leave the party...
...divisions out of West Germany and leave the line to a "tripwire force" adequate to flash invasion warnings to the deterrent H-bombers in Britain and the U.S. As the Manchester Guardian put it this week: "General Gruenther's screen across Europe is too weak to stop an assault by Soviet forces in East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO's retiring boss, General Alfred Gruenther. Adenauer has just bulled...
...live on other creatures," reminds the narrator), there are no more or less evil villains, only keener appetites and larger gullets. Best comic is a baby sea turtle who hungrily attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense of smell fouled up by the wounded octopus' ink defenses...
...Gentler Sex. In Oshawa, Ont, 27-year-old Cyril Arsenault was sentenced to three months in jail for assault after Nurse Ella Chalmers testified: "He put a headlock on me, and I forced my fingers between his teeth to twist his jaw around. I punched him on the nose and made it bleed. I let him up twice because I won't hit even a man when he's down...