Word: onslaught
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...newest weaponry and tactics of the major powers. In fact, two weeks of warfare between the Israeli and Arab armies has already taught military planners in both the Kremlin and the Pentagon that a classic offensive weapon developed by the Nazis during the Spanish Civil War-the tank onslaught with close aerial support-may be somewhat outmoded. That combination, used brilliantly by the Israelis in 1967 to win the Six-Day War, has proved to be far less effective this time, largely because of the vulnerability of aircraft and tanks to deadly new missiles...
...Arab onslaught, to be sure, was no Pearl Harbor. Israel's intelligence agents alerted the government several days before the invasion that the Arabs planned to attack. Israel's aircraft were not caught on the ground nor were its front-line troops dozing. In the weeks before Yom Kippur, Israeli intelligence had carefully monitored the buildup of Egyptian and Syrian troops. Yet Israel's intelligence organization, which won world respect with its almost uncanny ability to uncover Arab plans over the years and whose officials boasted that "Israeli intelligence is the best in the world," obviously failed...
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...
...hopefully: "Every light is a potential customer." Five years ago, that would have sounded like a half-time pep talk. Today it has the ring of an "audible" called on fourth down and goal to go. And why not? Football may no longer be sport. But, given the predictable onslaught of canned sitcoms, crime dramas and movies made for TV, it remains the greatest show in town...
...United States government established the dictatorial Nguyen Van Thieu regime in 1965 and since then has kept it breathing, first with 550,000 U.S. ground troops bolstered with a massive onslaught from the air, later, by subsidizing Thieu's million-man army and police apparatus...