Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than seven hours of Spillane-like night duty, Manhattan Detective Walter C. Bentley 1) was attacked by an assault suspect, who slugged him with a 5-ft. iron pipe, 2) carefully shot his attacker in the right knee with his service revolver, 3) took his prisoner to the station house and was then treated at St. Luke's Hospital for bruises of both shoulders, 4) reported back to duty, 5) jumped into the Hudson River in near-freezing temperature and rescued a drowning man, 6) retired to a hospital again to have a gash in his leg stitched...
Tooth & Nail. In Rapid City, S. Dak., John Spalla, who said he had just wanted to save on dentist bills, was charged with assault & battery after he tied his wife's hands behind her, pried open her mouth with a screwdriver, and tried to pull her teeth with a pair of pliers...
...think private enterprise must make a head-on assault on these problems, based on the managerial know-how and the spirit of venture which is the soul of our capitalist economy...
...Army did little about the case until church groups in the U.S. kicked up a ruckus (TIME, Feb. 2). Goff was first charged with "unpremeditated murder," but because the court-martial could not decide which man had struck the fatal blow, Goff was convicted on the charge of "aggravated assault." Even with the lighter charge, he could have drawn a prison term of five years, but the court was lenient. Why did Goff get off so lightly? "That information," said a legal officer, "is in the bosom of the court...
Then the President turned to reassess the Korean war. He ignored the happy delusion that the Korean war, of itself, is somehow a "lesson" which has taught Communists the folly of aggression. Said he: "It is clearly a part of the same calculated assault that the aggressor is simultaneously pressing in Indo-China and in Malaya, and of the strategic situation that manifestly embraces the island of Formosa and the Chinese Nationalist forces there." With the war thus redefined, his next step was easy...