Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coal Dock in Rockport, Ind., which buys coal from 60-odd nonunion mines and sells it to power stations, was attacked in January, and twelve $50,000 coal trucks were destroyed. State police arrested 194 men, mostly miners from Indiana's U.M.W. District 11. Last week any visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun...
...billed by Republican Senators as a roast of Jimmy Carter and his Attorney General Griffin Bell. But when the Senate Judiciary Committee began to consider Benjamin R. Civiletti's nomination as Deputy Attorney General last week, the mood was surprisingly low-key. Only a narrow attack was mounted on the ouster of Philadelphia's U.S. Attorney, David Marston, the issue expected to dominate the hearings this week. Said Wyoming Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop: "There was no reason why Marston should not have been fired as a Republican; the only question is the timing...
...right. Barre's policies, however, have lately begun to bear fruit: unemployment has declined for five consecutive months, the annual inflation rate has averaged only 7% over the past six months, France's trade deficit has been halved, and the franc, in spite of a brief attack in early February, has risen against the dollar...
...following year Penders made his real breakthrough, when he corralled Juan Mitchell, Ricky Free and Alton Byrd, who form the nucleus of the present squad. Byrd is the linchpin of Columbia's attack: despite missing eight games this year, he managed to set Columbia's all-time career assist record...
Then, seconds before the one minute warning Cooper awoke with a bang. She tied the bout with a straight-in attack, then moved ahead 2-1 on a low lunge with 46 seconds left. Eight seconds later, Cooper made it 3-1, by beating Mejias's blade down and poking her unprotected belly, and only two seconds after that the score became 4-1 on another Cooper beat attack...