Word: onslaught
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...fevered collage of oldtime-radio-programs-as-later-day-confidence-men as they invade the life of a threatened Jewish father. It's Roth's particular talent (or, to be more exact, one of Roth's particular talents) to be able to extract what's most nightmarish in the onslaught of our national life and to try to exorcise the terror by blowing it up beyond all tenable proportions...
Harvard will not be in Ithaca today, but do not fret. Cornell may be strong on professional image, but it can't defend itself from the onslaught of Ivy verbal abuse. Cornell will run all over the field to prove itself to Duffy Dougherty, but Harvard will keep its cool wits and prevail...
...room that led Epps to dedicate himself, in the interest of solvency for a Housing system that lost $700,000 in 1970-71, to "filling every bed at Harvard." His first step was to make it more difficult for juniors and seniors to move off campus, and until the onslaught of bodies this fall, most Houses were well below their off-campus quotas...
...months last November.) Although his announcement was only an opinion, and therefore not legally binding, many Massachusetts cities which had previously barred students from registering, including Boston and Brookline, reversed their stands and began registering students. The Cambridge Election Commission, however, ignored the ruling, replying to an onslaught of objections by saying it was waiting for an opinion on the ruling's legality from City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53. Cronin was conveniently on vacation for the rest of the summer...
...coastal wetlands and estuaries are being increasingly threatened by man's onslaught: between 1950 and 1969, almost 650,000 acres were lost to dredging and filling. According to the Natural Estuary Study compiled by the Interior Department, more than one-fourth of the 1,400,000 acres designated as shellfish areas are polluted. An area-by-area survey made last week by TIME correspondents indicates that the despoliation continues unabated...