Word: assault
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...ordinary or extraordinary, has girded himself for battle, assumed an expression of dogged determination, announced to his confreres of the city room or feature staff that he was "gunning for Lowell," going to get that interview at last which had been denied so many for so long. But the assault has ever petered out without reaching its objective, and so when it was revealed that, in addition to the masters of the first two Houses and News Office Director Lamb, the president himself would receive the press representatives he has so diligently eluded throughout all the years of his administration...
Vainly the accused pleaded that they had committed only "simple assault and battery." The court held that their motive was "race hatred," that they would not have assaulted the waiter had he been white...
...thought he had fainted from what he had learned inside. A cry went up. About 75 Fairmounters and Marionites, apparently equipped for the purpose, started a two-sided, business-like assault on the gaol. They battered down door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple...
...have reason to believe that an assault is being made by secret means, supported by the resources of a great empire, aimed at the destruction of our system of government. . . . The Federal Govern- ment has no police force available for our protection. ... A force ought to be provided...
...Excerpts : "The Amsterdam News is able to present this picture of the type of United States citizens whose words are law in Texas and other parts of the South. Mrs. W. G. Skinner, photographed above with her husband and two-year-old child, accused Henry Argo of attempting criminal assault upon her, for which 'accusation' Argo was fired on by members of a mob . . . and stabbed by Skinner. . . . An investigator later disclosed the fact that Argo was accused by the woman because he repulsed an attack by the Skinner's dog while he was fishing...