Word: onslaught
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Against this versatile onslaught, Eddie never really had a chance. Teddy won every ward in Boston, supposedly McCormack's bastion. He even carried Eddie's home precinct in Dorchester, 317-304. By the size and scope of his victory, Kennedy became an early-book favorite for November over Republican Nominee George Cabot Lodge, 35, another smiling scion of another famous Massachusetts family...
...slogan-you can do more for Massachusetts. This is the most insulting slogan I have seen in Massachusetts politics because it means vote for this man because he has influence, he has connections, he has relations. This is a slogan that insults the President of the United States." The onslaught continued: "I listened to my opponent the other night, and he said, 'I want to serve because I care.' You didn't care very much, Ted, when you could have voted between 1953 and 1960 on 16 occasions and you only voted three times. Do you really...
...Never-Ending Chain." Last week the meaning and long-term effects of that onslaught were still being debated by businessmen, economists and politicians across the land. Some of those who insisted that the President went much too far sounded even more denunciatory than Kennedy had been against Big Steel. "I just figured that this is the way Hitler took over," said George McDougal, vice president of the Daniel Construction Co. in Greenville, S.C. Said University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman: "It brings home dramatically how much power for a police state resides in Washington." Declared his Chicago colleague, Yale Brozen...
...Formby, 50, is a conservative, PRESIDENT-GENERAL DUNCAN Young, but not quite new. but he seems to be a blazing liberal compared to the sixth man in the race: former Army Major General Edwin A. Walker, 52, who vows that he will turn Texas into a fortress against the onslaught of domestic Communism...
...peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base of the slope, we watch the gate burst open at the onslaught of hundreds of men who pour forth and seem to run right at us from above. The effect is awesome...