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“The Anti-Vacks are assailing me … with all the force they can muster in the newspapers,” Jenner himself wrote in an 1812 letter.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021

Many policymakers and bankers in Europe are assailing floating rates partly on the argument that they have not, as promised, ended speculative swings in world currency markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critics ranging from union leaders to management experts are assailing the increases as an affront to workers and a potential threat to the economy.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for charges by some that they are assailing problems abroad while ignoring injustices at home, the demonstrators remain resolutely unshaken.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some advanced columns are assailing the English left, while through the smoke-hazes of the middle of the field two lines of skirmishers are seen firing at each other—the southernmost dark blue, the northernmost dull red.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas