Word: onslaught
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...Early Onslaught...
...Thatcher, the campaign is a crusade for a free economy and greater individual responsibility; Callaghan sees it as a choice between a caring society and a callous one. The Liberals and the minor parties are, for the moment, on the sidelines. The British will be spared a television onslaught, since both major parties will be allowed a total of 50 minutes each throughout the campaign for party broadcasts. Still, Labor delights in poking fun at the glossy publicity campaign mounted by the Tories and their trendy London advertising firm, Saatchi & Saatchi Garland-Compton Ltd. Says Callaghan...
Abby Meiselman, playing at number four, continued the onslaught by downing Julie Hanavan in identical sets, 6-3, 6-3, and fellow yardling Kristen Mertz took the fifth singles match by a wide 6-1, 6-0 margin. Wrapping it up, Leslie Miller, playing number six, defeated her opponent...
Once again, Folk Singer Joan Baez lent her plaintive voice to a rally in San Francisco, where her colleagues staged a "die-in," falling under the onslaught of an imagined nuclear disaster. Plants from Oregon to New York and Connecticut came under fire from the antinuclear brigade. Said a TVA official about last week's accident: "This will be just another piece of ammunition that the protesters can use. But frankly, it has a lot more substance than most of the things they...
...Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed to do the role, but withdrew last fall. To what degree the challenge of writing for Sills may have deflected Argento's usually stable dramatic sense cannot be known, but he has produced a harsh onslaught of ornamental coloratura writing without sufficient melody or legato line to sustain...