Word: assaults
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...crest of Boston's Beacon Hill, a bronze monument portrays Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in their assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863--a battle that cost the young aristocrat and nearly a hundred of his troops their lives. When the Union army asked for his body, a Confederate officer replied, "We have buried him with his niggers." Shaw's sacrifice--memorialized by the poet James Russell Lowell as a "death for noble ends"--has become an emblem of the lofty idealism that inspired New England's 19th...
...religious right is escalating the battle with tactics that have the sting of an all-out assault. "They use the gay issues to whip up hysteria among their own ranks, which helps them raise money, rally troops at the local level, build infrastructure and effectively challenge issues at a federal level," says Elliot Mincberg of People for the American Way, a liberal watchdog group. "In many respects, it's a national witch-hunt...
...developed in fighting the Americans forty-five years ago, still lingering vividly in people's psychological mind-sets, it would make perfect sense for North Korea, if things really went that bad, to place its last bet on extreme methods and launch (or continue, to be exact) an aggressive assault at all costs. Since the country's crippled economy would let down its people and make them starve anyway, why not just mess up everything and see what happens...
UNDER INVESTIGATION. MIKE TYSON, 29, boxer; for sexual assault; in Chicago. Thirteen months after serving three years for rape, Tyson was at a South Side night spot when, according to his accuser, he touched her lewdly and bit her cheek. Tyson could return to prison if he is charged...
...many in Boston, Wolfe's campaign is heart-breaking. The proposed cap in Artery spending may appear logical, but it can also be seen as a personal assault upon the city of Boston. Though it may seem ridiculous to call an attack on a highway an attack on a city, there is a clear connection between the two institutions. Just like Ray Bourque or Mo Vaughn, the Big Dig is associated with aspects of our city which serve as a source of pride for local residents...