Word: onslaught
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...combat the new onslaught, the pesticide industry offered up a chemical poison trademarked Sevin. It is not as toxic or long-lived as DDT, but just as surely kills the caterpillars. Nonetheless, environmentalists strongly oppose Sevin because it is fatal to fresh-water insects, fingerling fish and bees. Heeding the environmentalists' warnings, residents of most infested areas this year voted against aerial spraying of pesticides and settled back to let nature take its course...
Also, one began to suspect after a bit, they don't want it taking their money. As the Sunday onslaught of alumni slowly settled in, the usual legends had begun to capture our souls -we heard of one guy who tipped a porter 20 bucks on purpose, and another who had done so accidentally but it also began to appear, the legends might be no more than myths. For the Class of '44 was one of the first tight-fisted groups of returnees, and examples of outrageous beneficence proved to be their exception rather than their rule...
Facts and Fear. The board should also provide much needed guidance for advertising men who have become increasingly fearful and uncertain under the onslaught of criticism. In a much publicized account switch six months ago, Wells Rich Greene won Alka-Seltzer's billings away from Doyle Dane Bernbach. The new campaign has yet to appear, partly because of time spent trying to anticipate the Government's reaction. "All agencies are weighing their product claims a lot more carefully today," says Adman Victor Bloede, chairman of Benton & Bowles...
Poet James Dickey is a former Atlanta resident who has fled rather than pay it. Only 25% of today's Atlantans are natives, and Dickey feels alienated from them: "The most valuable thing about the South was its sense of community. This is slowly disappearing with the onslaught of industry and the change it brings. There are restless, nomadic people coming to the South. There is a loss of grace, of leisure. Things will go and never reappear...
...however, shows that the contradictions within capitalism itself were of paramount significance. While Russia was a central focus of Germany's attack, the war was, in fact, fought to contest imperialist hegemony. Class alliances were forfeited during the war as Western experts expected Russia to collapse quickly under German onslaught. At conflict were two social systems, one based on bourgeois-democratic forms, the other feudal-military. The belated bourgeois revolutions of both Germany and Japan were challenging the established domain of the technologically advanced West. Although this section of his argument is too brief to stand as a convincing analysis...