Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone he was able to attain, by adopting Truman's give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years...
...other quarters the verdict on Carter is not nearly so certain. There remains something admirable about the man's determination to learn, his durability in these months of political assault. James R. Jones, an influential young Oklahoma Congressman who has pointed out Carter failings in the past, was a guest on Air Force One when Carter flew to Japan in July. Jones spent long hours with the President, talking, listening, viewing the U.S. and the world from the finest fuselage aloft. A very practical pol himself, Jones was surprised. During this encounter he found Carter to have a good grasp...
...Pearl could have been averted. But against that certainty, those with the decisive force at their command must weigh the force of the unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship of the line and antiques that are a mere four decades...
This was all part of the famous "Johnson treatment": an allfours assault accompanied by a nonstop verbal barrage. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, remembers: "One hand was shaking your hand; the other hand was some place else, exploring you, examining you... He'd be feeling up Katharine Graham and bumping Meg Greenfield on the boobs. And at the same time he'd be trying to persuade you of something...
...high incidence of sexual assault and wife-beating are among the problems the march is intended to highlight, Andrea Rogers, a volunteer at the Cambridge Women's Center, said yesterday...