Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Morocco, S.A.C. will be in easy range of Soviet targets in the Ukraine, the Caucasus oilfields-in fact, any targets in European Russia, from Moscow to the southern frontier. Yet the Moroccan bases are almost unreachable from the U.S.S.R. by land. To take them, short of an airborne assault, the Red Army would have to skirt the eastern Mediterranean and cross the whole of North Africa. "European bases may give us 10% more hitting power," says one Air Force officer, "but Morocco gives us 90% more staying power...
...final stages of the assault, while aggressively pressing his attack, he was struck and mortally wounded by enemy fire...
...over Owen Lattimore, the professor and publicist who played an influential role* in the shaping of U.S. Far Eastern policy, is part of a greater clamor of alarm: What U.S. mistakes led to the Communist conquest of China and the assault in Korea? Who is responsible for the mistakes...
...imagine an "individual" operating a school for crime, teaching armed robbery, assault, murder, safe-cracking; how to outwit federal agents and the like? Would such an "individual" be right in teaching these things if he thought them right? Should the police and authorities have the right to prevent this "individual" from teaching what he thinks right? Well...
Connie died on June 2, 1951, near Chipo, Korea, at the summit of a heavily defended hill which his company had been attacking without success for two days. When his platoon leader was wounded on the third day, Connie took over. The assault party was pinned down by intense fire from automatic weapons in fortified emplacements above them. Connie crept forward, knocked out the first two positions with hand grenades, and organized a new assault. He was badly wounded. The platoon was driven back by a hail of explosives. Undaunted, he regrouped his men and led them forward once more...