Word: onslaught
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...threat was an impasse over who would protect the vaccine manufacturers against a possible onslaught of lawsuits. Few medical authorities believe the vaccine itself is dangerous, but they point out that with so many shots being given, some reactions are inevitable. That would be true, as one drug spokesman put it, "even if we vaccinated the whole population with tap water." Worried about defending against many frivolous suits, insurance companies have refused to provide coverage for the manufacturers. So has Congress, although at week's end some compromise was being sought-perhaps legislation that would limit damages anyone could...
...example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating itself. If its vitality dims from time to time under the onslaught of fads or sheer noise, jazz simply sits out a few sets, catches its breath and comes back refreshed...
There are cynics who explain the Italian invasion as less of an onslaught than a mass escape from chaos at home. "Some of the families, they're running away from Italy while they can still get out," says Ginori Director Franz M. Aliquo. But most of the shopkeepers admit to a more direct motivation. "New York is the most important showcase in the world," says Gucci's Cagliarini. Aliquo of Ginori says: "We decided to come because of the prestige, just to say we had a branch on Fifth Avenue." "Angelo Rizzoli just wanted a bookshop on Fifth...
...score might indicate, Friday's contest with the Big Red amounted to a Big Fiasco: Harvard paraded five pitchers to the mound in the face of the 22-hit onslaught, and freshman starter Tim Clifford ultimately picked up the loss...
...national TV last week. But he could only wangle five minutes of network time, just before the 11 p.m. newscasts. It was an odd time in an odd week-one of the few throughout the spring without one or more primaries. With voters taking time out from the campaign onslaught, Church's pivotal speech went all but unnoticed...