Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart's battery-mate, catcher Joe Wark, already well-known as a defensive specialist, began a continuing early-season offensive assault with a one-run blast in the third and a run-scoring, two-out double the next inning...
...attacks occurred nearly simultaneously at about 9 a.m. Saturday and lasted only 20 minutes apiece. No one was injured, and the workers were able to free themselves within an hour. In the Chicago assault, some half-a-dozen terrorists, with white knit scarves around their heads, entered the Carter office in the downtown Loop. Armed with rifles and pistols, they ordered the seven campaign workers, in English: "Cooperate and lie down, and you won't get hurt." The terrorists tied up the workers with clothesline and taped their mouths. One hostage thought that one of the intruders had been...
...contrast, the U.S. Ambassador, Spanish-born Diego Asencio, in his own daily phone calls to U.S. officials was reported to be maintaining steady nerves and preparing for a long siege. One grim alternative, of course, was an armed assault on the embassy. But, as one antiterrorist specialist on the scene warned, "that could be very, very bloody...
...victims, age one to 82, died during or soon after assaults with a variety of weapons, including a cane, a coat hanger, a belt, an electric cord and a shoe. Yet the physical injuries they suffered should not have killed them. Then, what did? The disparate group was culled by Pathologists Marilyn Cebelin and Charles Hirsch from a list of 497 assault cases that occurred in Cleveland between 1950 and 1979. After reviewing autopsy and police reports, tissue slides and hospital charts, the doctors report in Human Pathology that eleven of the 15 people had lesions in the heart similar...
...action has yet been taken aginst the man, who was neither a student nor university employee, but police said painting someone's toenails without their permission could be classified as assault...