Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cries and whispers punctuated the sweltering heat from East Hampton to Greenwich Village last week, as members of the New York literary Mafia exchanged notes on their crowd's bloodiest case of assault and battery in years. The perpetrator: New Yorker Writer Renata Adler, 41. The victim: fellow New Yorker Writer, Film Critic and 1974 National Book Award Winner Pauline Kael...
Lieut. General Thomas Tackaberry, commander of the XV111 Airborne Corps, was the first man out of the first C-141. Standing in the drop zone, he said the mass assault had a dual purpose. It tested how well the Army and Air Force could carry off such a huge troop movement (very well with a brigade, but a whole division is so much larger that there may be barely enough planes to deliver it across the sea). The exercise did something for the individual paratroopers as well. Said Tackaberry: "Psychologically, it helps a man to know he's part...
...their trial was to have begun last week, the three defendants pleaded no contest to charges of conspiracy to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon (the rattlesnake...
...Washington, the President is warned via the hot line that any nuclear intervention in Europe will result in a total thermonuclear assault on the U.S. After several agonizing seconds, the President decides that he cannot take the chance and refuses to order any of NATO'S missiles into action. Meanwhile, France and Britain launch submarine-based missiles targeted on Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. The Soviets detect the oncoming attack, assume Washington has defied their ultimatum and unleash 50 ICBMs against the U.S. Given only 30 minutes warning, the President now has no choice. He pushes the button. World...
...memory we encounter Virginia's father as an austere Greek scholar, selfish, stingy and totally un-Hellenic in his rigidity of spirit. Virginia hates him. The second man who stalks her early memory is perhaps worse. After escorting her to a fancy ball, her half brother tries to assault her sexually ("Eros," she says, "came on dirty wings...