Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jenkins' most publicized cases was his defense of Ed McNew, a camera-shy professional bondsman accused of shooting at a Knoxville newspaper photographer. The photographer produced a solid piece of evidence to support a charge of assault with intent to kill: a clear picture of McNew shooting at him. After postponing the case as long as possible, Jenkins produced McNew (who had been in an automobile accident) on a stretcher. A nurse and a doctor stood by, interrupting McNew's testimony to administer medications. After McNew faintly testified that photographers had hounded him, Jenkins argued that McNew...
Letdown in Command. At 1600 that afternoon, Dienbienphu fell strangely quiet. What was Giap up to? Was he regrouping? Was he digging his assault trenches closer to the battered French center? Was he heeding Mao Tse-tung's doctrine: "Fight only when victory is certain"? Or, more likely, was he synchronizing his next assault with Molotov's next offensive at Geneva...
...walk and three hits represented the victors' only major assault on Ward--these produced two runs in the seventh. Then Ken Rossano took over, allowing one run on one hit in two innings...
Sicily to Munich. Between the war dance and the Broadway parade, the Thunderbirds followed a long and bloody trail of soldiering around the world. In World War II the 45th was a crack assault division. In eight campaigns, from Sicily to Munich, it made four landings (Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, the French Riviera), spent 511 days in action, suffered 20,993 casualties (second only to the 3rd Division). The Nazi army learned to respect and fear the men of the fast-stepping "Falcon" Division,* who overran 1,000 square miles of Sicily in one three-week action...
...citizenship (and was thus set up for deportation to Italy) by a Newark federal judge on a relatively petty count. The court's finding: in applying for legal U.S. residence and citizenship, Anastasia twice neglected to report four arrests (three for murder, one for felonious assault), plus a 1923 conviction for gun-toting...