Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputation as a military innovator will be higher than it is now. The decisive moves of the Normandy landings, Marshall notes, were all Eisenhower's. It was he who rejected the original conception of a knifelike, five-division strike into Europe and insisted instead on a broad, seven-division assault. Against the advice of his own deputy, he insisted on a paratroop landing behind enemy lines. Only at the end, the historian relates, did Churchill accept Ike's battle plan...
...Prime Minister is not exactly traveling light - or alone. Against the chance that Africans infuriated by British arms shipments to Gowon might attack Wilson during the visit, the 11,000-ton amphibious assault ship Fearless will drop anchor off Lagos with an extra platoon of marines aboard...
...Assault on Liberalism...
...discovery, the Maui nukupuu was removed from the Interior Department's roster of extinct animals and put on the official list of "Endangered Species of Native Fish and Wildlife." The rest of that list, as announced last week, amounts to a catalogue of the 20th century's assault on wilderness life in the U.S. Some of the animals named may eventually drop off the list and disappear forever. A few, like Banko's bird, are species that have reappeared from apparent oblivion. A sampling...
...clearly imply that two years is not a dis-proportionate sentence were Collins, indeed, guilty of assault and battery and possession of marijuana. However, for disruption of classes at Harvard, "Two years in prison is too harsh a punishment...