Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ivory Towers in the late '60s and forced to come to grips with difficult problems. The fact that many members of the academy acquiesced in the activities of a certain senator from Wisconsin a decade earlier, and failed to reassess their roles in society when faced with a frontal assault on academic freedom, shows that the "multiversity" had to be shaken from below to lessen its rigidity. The university-as-fortress had bred a state-of-siege mentality; thus Nathan Pusey called in the police...
Pepper demanded that Chairman Greenspan rebuke Armstrong: "If one member can make an assault on another, we become a brawling group." Greenspan mildly reiterated his hope that "we can keep the rhetoric down to an absolute minimum." Wisecracked Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas: "We carry on like this all the time on the floor of the House and the Senate...
...dispute became a war. One could see it coming and still not believe it. A war that neither country wanted fought over a place that neither country needed? Even the taking of South Georgia did not bring the seriousness of the matter home: an Argentine submarine waiting for the assault like a turtle on its back; a farce-until the Belgrano. The lesson of the loss of life on that cruiser was not merely revulsion, but a recognition of the essential nature of the whole transaction. And was there not some hint of malicious fascination in all this...
Neghio Ngo is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and "possession of an internal machine," for allegedly hurling a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo '68 after the discussion last April...
...will not be expanded--is that the return to foot patrols would limit mobility and increase response time. Recent research indicates, however, that the contemporary obsession with response time has not helped police effectiveness in the least. A study of response time in Kansas City revealed that on average assault victims did not report their crimes to the police until an hour after it had occurred; robbery victims waited 23 minutes, burglary victims more than an hour. So even though police arrived at the scene of these crimes within three minutes of being called, an effort to shave...