Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...
...expected," warns the Century, "that voices will be raised declaring that the gates of heaven cannot be stormed by mass assault, and they are right. But the point is irrelevant. In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible. Christ wills the conversion of Amer ica. Of that we can be sure. But do we desire it above everything else? Are the churches prepared to risk it? When Christ wins America every local church will be transformed, every community changed, every denomination identified with the larger life of the ecumenical church. Did those...
...injun rights were claims to rooms in Stoughton, based on the charter tot the original stoughton Hall, which collapsed in 1871, (This 1695 charter is reproduced below.) Obviously unimpressed by the white man's spelling, the Indians had stayed away in droves; the 1939 assault was the first attempt ever to exercise the Stoughton Hall privilege...
Perilous City. But a great city like New York is full of perils. Three evenings later an attorney named Chester Mandel went into night court, and got a summons charging Bogart with simple assault. His client, an ultra-shapely young female named Robin Roberts, pulled her off-the-shoulder dress low on the port side and, as photographers leered happily, disclosed three marks on her upper bosom or lower shoulder. She explained that they were swellings and contusions...
Roughshod. In Chicago, Fred Haver-kate formally charged George Widdes with assault with a deadly weapon: "One pair of oxford shoes, size eight, attached to the defendant's right and left feet...