Word: assailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have already come down against the students for foolishly choosing the wrong professors to assail, the wrong course to boycott, the wrong issues to emphasize--and for not letting Americans focus on the real issue: how to persuade Harvard, its law school and hundreds of other colleges around the nation to stop the mealy-mouthed double talk and give some competent blacks jobs on their faculties." --Carl T. Rowan The Washington Post, August...
...Mayors assail Reagan's budget slashes...
...more egregious examples of the partisanship that has dogged all efforts at Social Security reform, House Speaker Tip O'Neill ordered Pickle to go no further. The reason: O'Neill saw an opportunity for Democrats to assail Reagan as an enemy of Social Security, and he did not want the issue clouded by anything that could be interpreted as a Democratic plan to reduce benefits for anybody...
Critics now assail "bilingualism" as expensive, impractical and unAmerican. None are more eloquent-or surprising-than Richard Rodriguez. A Mexican American by birth who trained as a scholar of Renaissance literature, Rodriguez, 36, is a writer of rare precision and grace. His new book, Hunger of Memory (Godine; $13.95), is a perceptive and touching memoir about growing up in an immigrant family and about the emotional costs of studying his way to a secure place in the Anglo intellectual hierarchy. In the book, Rodriguez bears knowledgeable and compelling witness against America's recent methods of educating the underprivileged...
...unrealistic. For one thing, assigning specific blame for atrocities can be difficult in a chaotic situation like that in El Salvador. For another, the congressional directive ignored the question of murders carried out by the left-wing guerrillas. But as various human rights organizations began to assail the U.S. for supporting the Duarte government, the Administration took a tough stand, arguing that El Salvador occupied an important place in an East-West struggle for dominance in Latin America. As Haig put it, "The threat to democracy from opponents of peaceful change is particularly acute in El Salvador. The Duarte government...