Word: onslaught
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...Crimson went ahead in the second half when Silver and Jenkins combined to sweep the boards and pulled the cagers away from a 28-23 half time deficit. Rohan's small squad couldn't withstand the offensive onslaught, and folded...
...silence that followed the warning sirens was broken by the dull thud of exploding bombs. Sirens wailed again, this time directing ambulance crews to the wounded. Bach Mai Hospital suffered the first of many direct hits. Homes and schools crumpled under the onslaught, and the night sky lit up with strings of smaller explosions. Rescue teams poked through wrecked buildings, searching for wounded people trapped beneath the rubble. The dead lay silent...
...half million, the loss of over 2000 young men in three weeks is crippling. In every household, the family has lost either a son or a cousin. An atmosphere of national grief has set in, immediately apparent to any visitor. Israel is a nation in mourning, stunned by the onslaught against...
Faced with the prospect of the end of Cambridge neighborhoods before the onslaught of the developers, a number of people began to hold open meetings beginning in December of 1972 that resulted in GRO and in an outline of its platform. Public meetings at the King, Roberts, Morse, Longfellow and Agassiz schools in May-June 1973 followed and completed the platform. The GRO candidates emerged from these meetings...
Sumner, firebrand senator from Massachusetts who took to the U.S. Senate floor to launch a direct onslaught on slave-holders, was judged unfit to be professor at the Harvard Law School. He recognized the reason and described it clearly in a letter to his brother: "I am too much...reformer...to be trusted...