Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police had no new leads on the case last night. Additional suspects have not been picked up, although the group of attackers numbered nearly a dozen according to Fawcett's report. In court last Saturday all the boys entered pleas of not guilty to an assault and battery charge...
...Cambridge teen agers booked for assault and battery in connection with the beating and stabbing of Richmond Bachelder '50 last Friday night, pleaded not guilty in East Cambridge Court Saturday. The trial was continued until next Friday morning...
...assault on Old Baldy, the heaviest and bloodiest of 1953, came just a few days before the Chinese made a surprise offer to settle the "one question alone" which prevents a Korean truce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Thus, the Red right hand had struck while the left hand held out an olive branch. This familiar pattern of pugnacity mixed with conciliation undoubtedly had its place in the world strategy of the Kremlin's new management; within the Korean frame of reference, its meaning seemed fairly clear. The military attacks said, in effect: "Don't think, just because...
...Dibelius' pastorship, is that they can no longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers have accused Bishop Hermann Müller of preventing youngsters...
...Work. In Hexham. England, Airmen George Knox and Edward Tanner, who pleaded guilty to breaking into a house and stealing money and goods, were let off when their commanding officer told the court that, as members of an R.A.F. Special Assault Section, they had been trained to break into buildings and capture documents, and it was only fair that a man so taught "might be inclined to put his training to test when he is in drink...