Word: assailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assail any individual or group for not choosing to play football, but nevertheless this points up the fact that the College's already seant supply of material is further reduced by the progeny of those who do the most complaining...
...scholarly Mary Agnes Hamilton is the fact that it has "ended isolation. A sense of loneliness, of inhabiting an alien universe ... is the commonest cause of personal misery. It is now being lifted." BBC's often-criticized newscasts, she thinks, are not so bad: "Americans, of course, constantly assail our news service as dull. It is meant, in a sense, to be dull. Anyone who wants it ... lively should listen for a spell to [American] news commentators and 'analysts,' each striving to be more arresting, more dramatic, more charged with a sense of crisis than the other...
Grinning, clownish Glen Taylor mounted the stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
...College literary magazines have also noticed this individuality, but they have an occasion blinked, and sometime even wept. They find that the better short-story artists around here just won't turn in their stuff to be printed, preferring to assail the most invincible national markets. The quality of the magazines goes down, subscribers and prestige begin to dwindle, and still fewer writers care to contribute. And all because of individualism...
...Louisville newspaper's 40th birthday, fire-breathing, shaggy-browed Colonel "Marse Henry" Watterson penned an editorial prophecy: "The time will probably never come when the Courier-Journal will be exempt from the accusations of corrupt motives, which invariably assail it whatever it says or does...