Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
Foreign policy, however, is scarcely an issue in the present campaign. In the assault on Labor's record-at-home by Conservative campaigners, voters will hear attacks in these three sections...
...character largely inspired by much-decorated Major General Frank A. Armstrong Jr., now chief of the Alaskan Air Command, who led the first Flying Fortress daylight assault against the Continent...
Complete with spear-carriers and prima donnas, grand opera was launching a mass assault on television. ABC started it with ponderous telecasts from the Metropolitan of Otello and Der Rosenkavalier. Last week, in the first of a series, CBS and Artistic Director Lawrence Tibbett proved that opera could be sprightly as well as tuneful, in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen on the Opera Television Theater...
Claude Cross, his businesslike little attorney, had new witnesses and new evidence with which to assault peripheral but important segments of the story told by Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier and espionage agent. A Mrs. Margaret Kellog Smith, proprietor of a children's camp, refuted Chambers' testimony that Chambers and the Hisses had been together in Peterborough, N.H. on Aug. 10, 1937-she swore that Hiss had been at her camp near Chestertown, Md. Alger Hiss's brother Donald denied another item of Chambers' testimony-that Soviet Agent Colonel Bykov wanted Donald to steal State documents...