Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lifelong limp. Nerve alone won his commission in the Royal Flying Corps, but once in the air, Slessor proved a topflight pilot. In the Sudan in 1916, he swooped down on a dervish cavalry outfit, routed it with Lewis gunfire and bombs, and "by this unexpected method of assault," wrote the official R.A.F. historian, "destroyed the enemy morale...
...Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation...
...assault was sustained the next day by White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams, who told the Republican National Committee: "The attempt by these political sadists . . . to talk this country into a depression [is a] perniciously evil device [for] attempting to destroy the confidence of the people in our Government . . . It should be recognized . . . [as] the 'fear deal...
...this slaughter and assault took place, respectively, on TV's Rocky King, Dragnet, The Mask, Front Page Detective, Martin Kane, The Big Story, Big Town, The Man Behind the Badge, and Foreign Intrigue. More people are killed each year on TV's crime shows than die annually by murder and non-negligent manslaughter in the six largest cities of the U.S. But, in one respect, television has a better record than the nation's police: every TV lawbreaker pays the penalty for his crime...
...Assault. Warmly bundled in many layered, lightweight clothes and wearing three pairs of gloves (silk, wool or down, and windbreaking cotton), the team started plodding up the mountain. They were accompanied by Sherpa porters, carrying tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, food, cooking equipment and fuel. Progressively higher camps were established as the men slowly accustomed themselves to high altitudes, became used to oxygen masks, and were molded into the unity of a smoothly meshed team...