Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer. "Yes, I am," said Gandhi...
...tiny Beretta automatic pistol. He fired three times. One bullet ripped into Gandhi's chest, two into his belly. With hands folded, as if welcoming the blow, in the gesture that is both the Hindu greeting and the Christian attitude of prayer, Gandhi fell backward. He murmured, "Ai Ram, Ai Ram" (0 Rama, 0 Rama), in invocation to the gentle hero of the Hindu pantheon, Gandhi's favorite...
...almost all newspapers denounced the shooting. But Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dàmera was unimpressed. Said he: "The Army is proud of the action by Captain Casillas, who repelled aggression. We hope all members of the armed forces will conduct themselves in the same manner." President Ramón Grau San Martín kept quiet, but Genovevo had seen him before he made his statement...
...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...
Prodding & Patience. At week's start, the Republicans suffered a serious tactical defeat when they tried, under a gag rule, to ram a token anti-inflation bill through the House. But after House Democrats, in an unusual show of solidarity, had smashed the bill (TIME, Dec. 22), Ohio's Bob Taft did a statesmanlike job of picking up the pieces in the Senate...