Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 69, plans to set out from Plymouth, England, this week for an assault on the singlehanded seaman's equivalent of the four-minute mile. In the improbable event that everything goes as he hopes it will, Chichester and his 57-ft. Gypsy Moth V will make Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, in 18 days, then cover the 4,000 miles of Atlantic to San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, in 20 days−an astonishing average of 200 singlehanded miles sailed every day. The 1968 transatlantic race was won at a daily average 109.8 miles. "To increase...
...middleweight boxing champion of Lincolnshire in his youth, he was a mean man to reckon with. Once when a warden caught him by surprise, Thorpe scored an easy K.O. with three straight lefts to the jaw−and landed in jail for three straight months for assault...
...police dispersed the crowd without making any arrests. In an attempted eviction on December 11, eight people, including Cunningham, were arrested on charges of assault and battery on a policeman and rude and disorderly conduct...
...confrontation resulted in a partial, though temporary, victory for Cunningham. Movers returned his furniture to the apartment, but police proceeded to arrest him and seven sympathizers on charges of assault and battery on a policeman and rude and disorderly conduct...
...apologies to any members of the community who felt their values scorned or ridiculed by my review. However, I had hoped that people would understand the distinction between an assault on personal religious belief-which my review was not-and an appreciation of a play which I (and apparently 1200 others) found to be very funny. The spirit of my review was satire and not scorn; humor, and the binding warmth of group amusement, was what I took to be the spirit of the play...