Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowered his trousers, causes him to kneel on the block. Two pre-positors then step forward and place their hands on the victim's shoulders. This is called "holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling...
...kids madder than ever; 125 out of 149 went out on strike. They went back three days later, but trouble started again. Powell had an argument with Ronald Hegedish, a new boy, pushed him against a wall. The boy's father swore out a warrant against Powell for assault. Powell was arrested Dec. 9, freed on bond pending a hearing...
Reductio ad Absurdum. In San Francisco, after Frank Avilez Jr. was convicted of assault, he appealed his 400-year prison sentence, got 60 years knocked...
Brown was arrested. Last week an all-white jury found him guilty of assault with intent to rape. Tampa's Judge Roy Amidon commented: "This is the most reprehensible case that ever came before me. It is much worse than if the races of the participants were reversed." He sentenced Brown to 20 years in the state penitentiary...
Francis J. Gallagher, suspected of being last Thursday's Radcliffe "prowler," was indicted for assault with attempt to rape and for completed rape by a Middle-sex County Grand Jury yesterday morning. He will be arraigned in Superior Court Monday or Tuesday...