Word: onslaught
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...onslaught began with Sally Roberts's impressive 6-3, 6-1, victory at second singles. Roberts's opponent, Julie McClure, started serving the match, and she proceded to double-fault the first two points and lose the game...
...with stickers from every state." From there she moves on to kinky sex with Clem Cloyd, the town hoodlum, and then to a proper Boston women's college, "alma mater of vast battalions of female overachievers." When her prim devotion to the rationalism of Descartes collapses under the onslaught of Nietzsche, she drops out of school and into a lesbian affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next, and ultimately she sinks into a mindless marriage with the local snowmobile salesman. "The incidents in her life to date," Ginny fatuously decides, "resembled the Stations...
Contrary to what most people think, the Algerians lost the war. After subjecting them to a steady onslaught of pillage, bombs, napalm and the most unspeakable, systematic torture, and after smashing the core of the FLN's leadership, the French clinched their victory by building an enormous electric fence along the Tunisian border. The fence cut the lifeline of the revolution because nearly all of the FLN's arms were smuggled across this border. However, the fence cost a fortune to guard and maintain, and there were problems of inevitable future insurrection and French public opinion. De Gaulle weighed these...
...power struggle between its ideological factions. One week after the unexpected appointment of the relatively unknown Hua Kuo-feng as the country's acting Premier (TIME, Feb. 16), leftists in Peking's leadership launched a violent attack on their "rightist" enemies. The radicals' rhetorical onslaught, if it continues to grow, could upset the plans for a smooth leadership succession carefully worked out by Chou En-lai before his death last month...
...record as Governor will be scrutinized for flaws, and he will turn out to have his share of them. Liberals, especially, have begun to question his positions. They are skeptical of his convictions and ready to paint him into a conservative corner. The candidate is braced for the onslaught. "The only way to avoid that kind of attack," he shrugs, "is to lose...