Word: onslaught
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...demand for Leopold III's abdication, Lefèvre organized a "Young Turks" revolt, and took over the party leadership. The oldtimers growled, "Let him break his bones on the job." Instead, he built up the Social Christian propaganda apparatus, tightened discipline and led his party in onslaught after onslaught against the Socialists. Those were the long years when no Belgian party could win more than the slimmest majority in Parliament, and the nation fell into a paralyzing attitude of attentisme (wait-and-seeism). In the March elections, both major parties lost ground to extremists of left and right...
Last year, playing under less than ideal weather conditions, the Crimson handed the Crusaders a 21 to 9 shellacking on the Business School flats. Except for minor variations, the Crusaders will field the same team this afternoon this endured that onslaught...
Cornell contained Coach Bruce Munro's men for the first period at the end of which the score was deadlocked at two goals apiece. High-scoring attackman Dave Bohn started the Crimson onslaught, converting a pass from Grady Watts into the first Crimson tally. Later in the period, Woody Spruance, starting at attack with Watts and Bohn, fed Watts for the second conversion...
...five days last week, the varsity lacrosse team encountered and whipped five teams, and established itself as one of the outstanding lacrosse teams in the nation. Victims of the powerful Crimson onslaught were CCNY, Hofstra, Rutgers, the Boston Lacrosse Club, and a combined Oxford-Cambridge team currently touring the United States...
...secret grave thousands of miles away in the desolate eastern Congo bush. Patrice Lumumba, ex-beer salesman, ex-embezzler, ex-Premier, was dead. Russia was obviously preparing to make the most of it, and Stevenson quickly got on the telephone to tell Washington to brace itself for the onslaught...