Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the determined assault on their senses of sight and sound, many of the patients seemed not to notice. They were long-term cases of the type once despairingly classified as hopeless. They had withdrawn from the world about them into impenetrable fantasies. Some catatonics stood in statuesque poses, as they had for hours. Others remained curled up, catlike. in a protective ball...
FEBRUARY-Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable...
...then a breakthrough-two tiny figures bobbing far above through the ice glare, like spots before the eyes-to the summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker, tensed like the climbers for so long against so many obstacles, pushes forward out of his seat to be with the first assault team, Bourdillon and Evans, as they slog out for the south summit at least, and, God willing, the peak...
...weary, turns upward. Eleven hours later, the two are back. They have made the south summit; beyond, it was too rough. A camp is now established by Hillary. Tenzing and George Lowe at 27,900 ft. They spend the night there, and next day Hillary and Tenzing, the second assault team, try for the victory. Again the waiting at the lower camp, longer than before. Suddenly three figures are sighted, far up the Lhotse face-too far to tell...
Reaction. In Buffalo, charging third-degree assault, Mrs. Arnold Kleindienst testified that, after she shoved a spoonful of hot cauliflower into her dozing husband's mouth, he "exploded from under the bedclothes," punched her in the jaw, mocked her down and placed his foot on her neck "with considerable force...