Word: onslaught
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Sophomore Don Kidd began the Harvard onslaught with a victory in the 200 butterfly, followed by Greg Tull's win in the 100 freestyle and Tom Peterson's first place finish in the 200 backstroke...
...Souza racked up 30 saves, repelling everything except one goal during an onslaught of RIT shots with under a minute left in the game...
...battleground in Panama, however, a far less optimistic drama was unfolding. Confounding Pentagon hopes that Noriega's Panama Defense Forces would quickly crumble under a devastating U.S. onslaught, the fugitive dictator's men were preparing a determined counterattack. Instead of the quick and decisive knockout U.S. commanders had sought, the invasion was in danger of degenerating into a nasty street fight in densely populated Panama City. House-to-house fighting in a crowded urban area was something military planners were leery of because of the threat to civilians...
...share of bruises lately. He was apparently so angered by the harsh criticisms he heard at the Central Committee plenum two weeks ago that he threatened to resign. Gorbachev has played this trump card on at least two other occasions to rally support. But this time the conservative onslaught was especially fierce, particularly from Alexander Melnikov, party boss from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, one of the sites of coal-mining strikes that swept the nation last July. In an article in the liberal weekly Moscow News, journalist Danil Granin, who was a guest at the plenum, expressed alarm that...
Although it's just 28 days long, February sees a relentless onslaught of game after game after game, including the big three matches against Penn, Princeton, and Yale...