Word: assaults
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Yeager was charged with attempted murder as well as assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. As of yesterday afternoon, he was still in the custody of Cambridge Police, pending $25,000 bail...
...successfully fought off a large-scale incursion by a force of elite Revolutionary Guards. The N.L.A.'s officers claim they have launched more than 100 cross-border operations against Iran in the past several years. The Iranians have responded with terrorist strikes, Scud missiles and, in January, a mortar assault on the N.L.A.'s fortified compound in downtown Baghdad, causing minor damage...
Women cannot escape the threat of violence. Even those who have not been the victim of assault or abuse live with the knowledge that it could happen to them someday. A steady relationship is not even a safe haven, for over four million women are battered by their partners, male or female, each year. On a day-to-day basis, the fear of violence determines what routes women take home from the library at night, what time they take their daily runs and to whom they give their name and number. It controls their choice of which apartment to rent...
...have just described many ways in which attacks and the threat of assault affect our actions and the lives of those around us. But all of these restrictions are just some of the results of the culture of violence in which we live. The violence in our culture affects how we, as women, view our bodies. It tells us how we should behave in relationships and what to expect from our partners. It affects our sexual and reproductive choices. In the broadest sense, it limits our options and aspirations...
Imagine that you're passing through the nation's capital and turn on the local sports radio station to hear blaring, "Hail to the Niggers! Hail victory!" What would you do? While some people in America would undoubtedly welcome this racist assault on the senses, I think that many people, especially African-Americans, would nearly die from the shock. All sorts of organizations would have massive protests and boycotts assembled within hours. The bloodthirsty media (that's us), always in search of conflict, would find somebody's house to stake out, and, eventually, due to the mounting pressure from plebs...