Word: onslaught
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...nearly two weeks, Kompong Cham−Cambodia's third largest city−has been besieged by Khmer insurgents. During the initial onslaught, government forces were split in two and Communist-backed troops invested more than half of the T-shaped Mekong River town. Late last week the tide of battle turned. The besiegers began to drift away, and the Phnom-Penh government claimed a significant victory. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand rode a Cambodian helicopter into Kompong Cham, left the scene two days later with a convoy of wounded for the 75-mile voyage downriver to Phnom-Penh. His report...
Much antiwar sentiment was based solely on this aversion to the killing, but some people, particularly students who had time to ponder such matters, started to search for an explanation for the Vietnamese resistance. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after...
Baldini's allusion to medicine is more than casual. Even when the floodwaters had receded, hundreds of frescoed walls in Florence remained so damp that the paintings were threatened by a bacterial onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could...
...bombing began in earnest in mid-1964, peaking in 1969 and ending only last February. The aerial onslaught, which lasted longer than the bombing by any country of another in world history, carpeted sections of Laos with hundreds of thousands of bomb craters and turned between one-third and one-half of Laos's three million people into homeless refugees...
...expanded meeting of Republican congressional leaders marked one small step for the better. Nixon asked for advice on the economy, and he listened. There was Illinois Senator Charles H. Percy, heretofore considered a White House enemy, warning about an onslaught of angry American tourists who are finding out how diminished the dollar is overseas, urging productivity councils, a flexible investment tax credit, spending cuts. Percy got it all out, and driving back to the Hill with G.O.P. Chairman George Bush, he felt better. So did Congressman Les Arends, who reported on the problems of farmers from his Illinois district. Texan...