Word: assaults
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Until her divorce last year, Annette LaFrancis was routinely beaten by her husband, a Navy submariner with the rank of chief petty officer. He was eventually convicted of assault, but LaFrancis can never forget how often she feared for her life. Her terror was compounded by six guns he had illicitly stashed in their Navy-owned house in Groton, Conn. "I'd worry that one day he'd flip out and use one on me," she says...
...wheel, further propelled by justice and journalism, picked up so much speed that the former Marvin Aufrichtig just had to get off. On Thursday afternoon, in a bizarre end to a bizarre trial at Virginia's Arlington County courthouse, Albert, 56, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of assault and battery in a case brought by a longtime lover. In the bargain, which prosecutors said had been offered to Albert before the trial began, the far more serious charge of forcible sodomy was dropped. Not long after his plea, NBC announced that it had fired Albert after 20 years with...
FEBRUARY-MARCH The army strikes back, killing 328 armed Islamists in five raids. Still, 33 of the town folk of Kerrach die in a February assault...
...midst of injecting it with a large dose of the upper-crust life-style that is Martha Stewart living. In a joint venture with K Mart, Stewart has launched a signature paint (with Sherwin-Williams) and home collection: Martha Stewart Everyday, the first salvo in an all-out assault on K Mart's style sensibility. If Stewart has her way (and she usually does), America will soon be changing its sheets the Martha...
...alternative and more dramatic antitobacco tactic is to portray smoking as an assault on nonsmokers via secondhand smoke. Now, secondhand smoke is certainly a nuisance. But the claim that it is a killer is highly dubious. "The statistical evidence," reported the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 1994, "does not appear to support a conclusion that there are substantive health effects of passive smoking...