Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chin Men, just off the mainland from Amoy and 130 miles across the Strait of Formosa. The attack was a bloody failure. Nationalist troops commanded by trim, V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen, who four months ago was placed in charge of Formosa's defense, routed a Communist assault force of 20,000, returned to Formosa with 7,000 prisoners. Most of the Reds have since been reorganized into Sun's forces...
Signs of Maturity. Protected by the 100-mile-wide Strait of Formosa, separating them from the Communists on the mainland, the Nationalists seem to have a good chance of successfully defending their island redoubt against an assault-providing Formosa's native population does not rise against them. While General Sun is licking Formosa's military defenses into shape, Governor Wu is busy trying to win the loyalty of Formosa's 6,500,000 people, most of whom dislike the Chinese, Nationalist or Communist. To win friends among Formosa's hard-working peasants, Wu is pressing...
...horrified middle-aged women sat and watched 91 murders, seven holdups, three kidnapings, ten thefts, four burglaries, two cases of arson, two jailbreaks, two suicides, a homicidal explosion, one blackmail and assorted cases of assault & battery and attempted murder. All of this violence, reported Mrs. Clara Logan, president of the Southern California Association for Better Radio and Television, was seen by association members-between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m.-during one week of television shows over six of Los Angeles' seven TV stations...
...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...
Reprieve. In Elmira Heights, N.Y., convicted of third-degree assault, Steve Weaver got a one-day parole on his 30-day jail sentence so that he could report for his weekly unemployment check...