Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll. Later he ruled that the jukeboxes could stay if they stuck to the classics-Beethoven and Chopin, for example. Meanwhile, police cleared the newsstands of pornography, padlocked eight girlie-magazine publishers and swooped through bars, sending B-girls home. Mapping a massive assault on Singapore's notorious gangsterism, police debated issuing identification cards to Singapore's 7,000 known hoods and pimps. The immediate, unexpected result: for the first time in memory, a full week went by without a kidnaping, extortion or gangland rumble reported...
UNITED MINE WORKERS paid $438,000 in damages for violence in trying to organize Meadow Creek Coal Co. of Montgomery, Tenn. Action has spurred other mine operators to sue for $6,000,000 in damages, and additional suits totaling $7,000,000 are expected soon. To meet assault on its $21 million treasury, U.M.W. assessed its 190,000 members $20 each...
Over the years, the Geographic has compiled a roll call of contributors, lecturers and explorers that scans like a picket fence of U.S. history: Robert E. Peary (to whose 1906 assault on the North Pole the society contributed $1,000), Colonel George W. Goethals (who built the Panama Canal and told Geographic members all about it), Wilbur Wright, Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Billy Mitchell (who propounded his theory of airpower in the March 1921 issue), "Hap" Arnold, Chester Nimitz, Arthur Radford. Equally impressive is the Magazine's current board of trustees, e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice...
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had suffered weeks of silence while being criticized by a handful of liberal Democrats who accused him, on one hand, of one-man rule, and, on another hand, of failing to organize his sprawling majority (64-34) for an across-the-board assault on the Republican Administration's policies. Finally, last week, Johnson took his tongue out of the cheek he had been turning. "This one-man rule stuff is a myth," cried he on the Senate floor. "It does not take much courage, I may say, to make the leadership a punching...
...counterattack starts, as a divisional reflex, before the first question can be answered by the Far East command. But even before King Company can reach the first Chinese defenses, the rusty U.S. chain of command has snapped. The assault group is caught in the full glare of an Allied searchlight battery that has confused Pork Chop with "some other hill," and before the lights go out, a dozen or more Americans lie dead or wounded. Shocked and bewildered, the green troops nevertheless hold firm, then make a wild charge that carries the Communist outworks...