Word: onslaught
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...clergyman's study, the lawyer's book-lined room, the well-placed camping tent, or the cozy room at the inn or club, with fortifying drinks at hand. But soon a vague unease, a chill in the air, or else a strong shock undermines or shatters composure. No rhetorical onslaught . . . can equal it; the intrusion, fluid and elusive or sharp and violent, destroys all past security." King begins with all the reassuring American trappings: the 7-Eleven stores, the ribbons of superhighway, the town high schools that seem part of an ordered landscape. Then come the hints of malaise...
Saturday's onslaught began 11 minutes into the first half, when Catliff lined a pass from linemate Drory Tendler into the upper right corner...
...possible. The $250,000 U.S. aid package, which included tents and food supplies, came in response to a request from Biya for assistance. Canada, Britain, West Germany and Spain also responded to the call, sending money and tons of medical and food supplies. Cameroonian officials, as unsettled by the onslaught of relief aid as by the crisis itself, quickly set up a national disaster committee. "Our first priority," announced Committee Chairman Jean Marcel Mengueme, "is to set our priorities...
Center for National Policy, Washington. Set up by Democrats in 1981 in the face of the coming conservative onslaught. Closely allied with the Democratic Party, the center concentrates on broad economic policy, agricultural issues and options for the political process...
...L.D.P. candidates then hit the campaign trail with a vengeance. Like other Liberal Democratic leaders, the 68-year-old Prime Minister vigorously sought out Japanese voters from the northernmost island of Hokkaido to the southernmost archipelago of Okinawa. Outflanked and unprepared for the L.D.P. onslaught, the opposition got off to a slow start and never recovered. The Socialists, long the ruling party's most serious adversary, lost 25 seats in the lower house, bringing their total down to 86. The moderate Democratic Socialists did not fare much better, dropping sharply, from 37 seats to 26. The centrist, Buddhist-oriented Clean...