Word: onrushing
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...World War II broke out, friends urged him to leave. He refused: "Rather than give up these cypresses and olive trees and this light, I would lay down my life." Ambassador William Phillips then got a promise from Count Ciano that "Berenson would never be disturbed." Finally, however, the onrush of the Nazis forced him out. After the war, two young partisans, sent by the Committee of National Liberation, found him in hiding and escorted him back to his cypresses and olive trees, his several servants, and the remote, unruffled life he had known before...
...this week, 2½ years after Nagasaki, five men walked into the White House and laid before Harry Truman a 50,000-word document. They were members of a commission which he had appointed last July to write an air policy for the U.S. Their document, written in the onrush of world events in the last half of 1947, was the most ambitious report on U.S. air power...
...doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with the economic and military wherewithal to stem the dynamic onrush of the Soviet Union towards the Dardanelles...
...user, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley, an 18-year-old Kansas City soprano, sang Gilda in Rigoletto, to the clicking of telegraph keys and the onrush of trainloads of Kansas citizenry. After three years of straining her immature voice, Marion Talley retired from opera for good. (Currently the Met is plugging immature Patrice Munsel, a Spokane coloratura who made her Met debut...
...idea grew out of a conference called last spring by the National Research Council. Scientists told how little was known about the Pacific area, how fast its odd varieties of man and beast were vanishing before the onrush of civilization. To preserve these forms and study the region which had produced them would be a more lasting memorial to the war dead than any statue or building...