Word: onslaught
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...bullets cut down 28 prisoners and 9 of their hostages. As a result, Walter B. Dunbar, then New York's deputy commissioner of corrections, was able to tell reporters incorrectly that inmates had slit the hostages' throats, and that one man who he said had been killed before the onslaught was stabbed and emasculated by cold-blooded insurgents...
...heavy-handed onslaught of forced alliteration is the most obvious flaw. The result would be laughable if she were attempting a parody of Gerard Manley Hopkins--but she's not. She's perfectly serious...
...press onslaught has now peaked. Wilson, who was never accused of wrongdoing, has been exonerated of any impropriety. He and his aides may have the last word in the courts at the expense of those few papers that pursued the case beyond the bounds of fair play. It is also possible that the incident will revive interest in a proposal first made in 1972 to make investigative reporting more difficult...
...same time an even stronger external pressure for white minority rule is likely. Angola and Mozambique are seen by the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia as buffer states against a potential black African liberationist onslaught. These vast expanses of land--each well larger than Texas--thoroughly insulate South Africa from contact with any black nationalist government, and make infiltration and supply of potential antiapartheid guerrillas nearly impossible. This is one of the main reasons South Africa has entirely escaped any militant insurgency...
...Boston College relays April 19-20 follow the southern relays, but then the Crimson will run up with an onslaught of dual meet competition. After the Princeton meet (April 15), the Crimson faces Yale (April 23), Dartmouth (April 30), and Army at a date to be announced later. Interspersed between the three head-on meets, will be the April 26 Penn Relay Carnival, and the Greater Boston Relays in early May. "Once we get into that part of the season we won't be able to practice," Stowell said. "We'll just have to condition by competition...