Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment when a still unidentified 'Punie loosened the bow oarlock of his rivals' boat, to the bitter assault on CRIMSON cox Michael Churchill after the contest, the 'Punies spared nothing in their efforts to interrupt the inevitable progress of the race...
...Orde Wingate, had made it axiomatic that troops could not be expected to operate efficiently in enemy territory longer than three months at a time. When the remnants of the Marauders, dragging themselves over the 6,000-foot passes of the Kumon Range in the monsoon rains, made the assault on Myitkyina airfield, they had been five months behind the Japanese lines. They gained their objective, and then simply fell apart as an organization...
Marks is no newcomer to unpleasantness. His U.S. police record includes 32 arrests, from Long Beach, Calif. to Bangor, Me. on charges ranging from drunkenness, vagrancy and assault to auto theft and draft dodging. He escaped from a Wisconsin reform school in 1938, from an Ohio jail in 1946, from a California industrial farm in 1950. Finally, he did 3½ years in the Wisconsin pen for raping a 17-year-old girl. Warden John C. Burke remembers him as "a real stinker...
...Life they got. Loeb was killed (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936) in Stateville Prison in a razor fight that apparently started with a homosexual assault. Leopold was paroled last year (TIME, March 24, 1958) at the age of 53, is now working as a laboratory technician in a Puerto Rico hospital...
...hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead. The son assimilates his course in Unethical Practices so well that he commits assault and battery upon his father without fear of reprisal. But when the son threatens to beat up his mother as well, the senator, fed up with the results of his numbskullduggery, decides to go on a book-burning spree and ends up burning the entire school to the ground...