Word: onslaught
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...Callaway, 39, who two years ago was elected Georgia's first Republican Congressman since Reconstruction, officially announced his candidacy for the governorship. A states' righter and segregationist of the George Wallace stripe, Callaway promised a "new Declaration of Independence" for Georgians, vowed to resist "the unwarranted onslaught of federal domination" of the state's affairs. With no opposition in his own party, Callaway is given at least an even chance against the disorganized Democrats (TIME, May 7), whose candidate in November will most likely be former Governor Ellis Arnall, 59, an outspoken liberal and a moderate...
...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...
When the double-play relay arrived at first only slightly after Crimson catcher Al Liebgott in the bottom of the sixth inning, the umpire carried out unprotested euthanasia, finally ending Harvard's onslaught...
Rosewall, however, does most of his thinking on the tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy...
...Damascus, and other Levantine fun spots. Though she occasionally sounds the depths of a woman's revenge, Sophia sticks mainly to Byzantine surface effects. As the farewell gesture of a hollow drama that might have been something more, the young Jewish nation rather incidentally survives the first Arab onslaught-saved by an eyelash, so it seems...