Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flanked now by soldiers, the mob began a nine-hour-long assault on one Mossadegh stronghold after another. When they finished, they had captured the police station and Radio Teheran: they had sacked eight government buildings and two pro-Mossadegh newspaper plants; they had smashed the headquarters of the Tudeh and the pro-Mossadegh Pan-Iranian party...
...lightened by the dismissal of 4,000 temporary clerks. These were the kinds of cuts a rightist government could be expected to make, but they did not get to the heart of the ailing French economy (see below). They merely convinced the workers that the cabinet intended an assault on the French welfare state...
...cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger blustered that Dagmar Peters had tried to rob him, but "the jury did not believe him, and he was hanged at Wandsworth Prison...
...Hasty Heart. In Kingston, Jamaica, impatient because his fiancee's illness had delayed their marriage, Attorney Justin Colin forced his way into the hospital, rushed his prospective bride to his car, sped 60 miles to Mandeville for a quick wedding, seven hours later was arrested on an assault charge...
Putting into Portland, Ore. for repairs on his teeth, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas dropped into a dentist's chair, decided it was as good a place as any to reel off some mental floss. Samples : 1) he considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history...