Word: onslaught
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...onslaught of sickness and injuries all but overwhelmed us," said McCurdy. "When people start healing up we should do very well...
COLORADO'S RICHARD LAMM. Coloradans were braced for a flood of legislation to protect the environment when Democrat Lamm, 39, was elected. But the onslaught never came. Lamm has been too busy trying to protect the state's surplus, which for fiscal 1976 has dwindled from an anticipated $80 million to a mere $11 million; the total budget is $1.8 billion. Lamm has upset the state's teachers by increasing the educational budget less than his Republican predecessor did last year. To provide tax relief, especially for the poor, he has proposed a general income...
Meanwhile the U.S., deeply moved by China's suffering under the Japanese onslaught, came to idolize Chiang and especially his wife. An enrapt Wendell Willkie spoke of her combination of "brains, persuasiveness and moral force ... with wit and charm, a generous and understanding heart, a gracious and beautiful manner, and a burning conviction." Others resented her imperious will and her attempts to influence U.S. wartime strategy on Chiang's behalf. At that time the generalissimo wanted the U.S. to place less emphasis on the war against Germany and more on the fight against Japan; he sought more arms...
Rumor Service. Getting there was becoming ever chancier, as the ARVN collapsed before the Communist onslaught. Some newsmen in Saigon were able to buy their way onto a handful of small planes. Others had to be content with piecing together accounts of the war from eyewitnesses, press briefings (including weekly sessions conducted by the Viet Cong in Saigon under the terms of the Paris accords) and an infinite number of rumors. "Just pick up any hotel phone and ask for rumor service," said one correspondent wryly. Ambassador Graham Martin, never a favorite of the U.S. press corps, has discouraged...
...rounded up no fewer than 155 supporters in the House who urged his appointment to the Elections Commission (he did not get the job). All things considered, the pressure on the White House to take care of the casualties could have been worse. "I was gearing up for an onslaught," said a White House aide in charge of job distribution. "And it never came. I figured at least half of the defeated Congressmen would be beating down our doors, and only about a quarter did. Most of the guys would write and say: 'Mr. President...