Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of our highest court is yet to be determined. But, certainly, he is not "slob" and not a "mediocrity." In any event, it was a gratuitous detente for the professor to make the matter of Judge Haynsworth's qualifications the occasion for a wholly uncalled-for assault on such eminent scholars as Professor Freund and Judge Friendly...
...travels in interstate commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including but not limited to the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio or television, with intent to incite riot." The concept of judging a defendant's intent is not particularly unusual; there are such offenses as assault with intent to kill. In dealing with a person's frame of mind regarding civil disorders, however, large and ambiguous questions arise involving the difference between the legitimate exercise of dissent and an unlawful intent to create mayhem...
...Regular soldiers have seen their equipment steadily improve in quality. The U.S. was slow to supply the best weapons to South Viet Nam's forces. But now all 185 maneuver battalions of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) are equipped with U.S.-supplied M-16 assault rifles, a considerable improvement over the obsolete Mls and carbines of the war's early days. The average South Vietnamese soldier, however, still has access to far fewer mortars, artillery, Jeeps, trucks, armored vehicles, helicopters and planes than does...
...sergeant had ordered his men to cut their hair before the "TIME man" came to talk to them. Nevertheless, Terry interviewed well over 400 blacks; he talked with jet pilots who took him along on their strike missions, with airborne troops who carried him into the A Shau Valley assault that led to Hamburger Hill, with Marines on patrol in the DMZ, with the first black Army general of this war and with a black battalion commander who choppered him into firefights...
...stronghold in Turin, Italy. Mr. Bridger finds it a simply wizard idea and puts up expense money. Alas, Charlie's elephantine ambitions arise from a gnat-sized intellect. His gang is so crooked that none of them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play a splendid game of verbal tennis, but by the final reel...