Word: onslaught
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When the horn blew, the Gray Panthers had a couple of hundred new members. Fearing an onslaught, Harvard Square Theater raised its senior citizen rate...
...silently adding Clorox to my wash, a blue-haired elderly woman suddenly turned from putting her wash in the dryer and clicked over to me in her orthopedic shoes. Holding a ball of lint in her hands, like a damning piece of evidence, she began her verbal onslaught...
...outrageous was the onslaught? With a little over three minutes left in the second period, Harvard Captain Steve Armstrong launched a fly ball toward Cadet goalie Brooks Chretien. The freshman netminder backpedaled, waved off his teammates, and lifted his glove for the catch...
...Crimson maintained its intensity, coming at RIT with a flurry of shots during the final minute of the second period after a Tiger penalty. But the second period onslaught was halted by the buzzer and goalie Julie Handzel held off the Crimson in the third...
...traffic on the river was halted. The oil entered the Ohio River at Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, and by week's end the scene had been replayed downriver as far as Steubenville, Ohio, where an ice jam slowed the oil's progress. Wheeling, W. Va., was bracing for the onslaught, and contamination was feared along the Ohio all the way to the Mississippi. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission reported numerous dead fish; ducks and geese, caught in the oil, had to be rescued and washed. Said Ashland Oil Chairman John Hall, who quickly declared his company would comply with federal...