Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah's marble palace. After lunch with the Shah, Ike told the Iranian Parliament: "I well know you and the people of Iran are not standing on the sidelines in this struggle [for peace among nations]. Without flinching, you have borne the force of a powerful propaganda assault." Privately, the Shah worried about the military buildup, with Communist arms, in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq, and warned the President to beware of the Russians at the summit. Ike praised the Shah for bearing up under Soviet propaganda blasts and threats, assured him that he would support continued...
...Here is no entrance except for friends," wrote one historian of the forbidding little (1.6 sq. mi.) island of Lundy. Rising like a granite fang out of the churning waters off the coast of Devon, the "isle of Puffins" has survived assault by the Spaniard, the Turk, the Frenchman and the Dutchman. But in all the 800 years since the King of England gave it over to one of his favorite barons, it has bowed to no nation for long-not even to its great neighbor, Britain...
Almost unnoticed, the Russians have become major challengers in the international competition for airplane records, earlier this year snatched both the altitude and speed records from the U.S. Galled by such impudence, the U.S. Air Force last week organized a major assault on both Russian-held records...
...eating.' " Thereafter followed 200 words, drafted by Childrens Hospital, to the effect that mistletoe is poisonous when taken internally. What was remarkable about the story was not the toxicity of mistletoe but the transmission. One of the publicity man's newer gimmicks in his tireless assault on news space is the teleprinter, which delivers handouts to the city desk looking just like copy hot off the A.P. or U.P.I, machine...
...Fleet Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, 66, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) fighting admiral who captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...