Word: onslaught
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...nearby Aley, military headquarters of Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt, the Syrian onslaught seemed equally overwhelming. Lebanese rightist troops had attacked the town just ten days ago but the Palestinians had beaten them back. They had also mined the main road and lined it with sandbag barricades. The Syrians opened with barrages of rockets, sent in swarms of low-flying MIG fighters, then followed with tanks. Said one fedayeen who fled from a burning house: "They use their rockets like we use our guns. We fire 30 bullets and they fire 30 rockets." Palestinian radio broadcasts appealed to Arab nations...
Well, the Yankees finally did it. The Bombers bought the pennant. And now we are going to be subjected to the biggest verbal onslaught about the New York Yankees dynasty since the one-year Knicks dynasty...
Fitzgibbons started his onslaught on the second and did not falter until he reached the thirteenth. On number two he smothered his drive, hooking it into the rough, but recovered beautifully by lacing a five iron that kicked up to the pin. He went on to hole out the side-hill 17-foot putt for his three...
...lack of one-to the mystery of the Philadelphia killer, the outbreak served as a jarring reminder that all the marvels of modern technology have not yet made the U.S. immune to a sudden pestilence. Indeed many medical experts warn that the U.S. is still largely unprepared for an onslaught of swine flu, which some fear could hit the U.S. this winter. The new flu, although probably not as dangerous as the World War I variety, could be at least as virulent as the Asian strains that have swept the country in recent years...
Such self-abnegation cannot have come easily. So intense was Bayi's desire to stave off Walker's onslaught on his record that he had been rising before dawn each morning at the Tanzanian training camp near Mount Kilimanjaro to take a brisk, eight-mile jog through the chill highlands air-at a formidable sub-six-minute-mile pace. Later in the day, after calisthenics and a rest, the slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) miler would run to the point of exhaustion. Unlike the notoriously roistering Walker, Bayi does not smoke or drink, and, while...