Word: onslaught
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Nigeria, Ghana and Guinea were easy to set free: they were almost all black. The first big bastion of white strength to meet the full onslaught of Africa's wind of change was Britain's sprawling Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a seven-year-old amalgam that the more populous blacks disliked from the start...
Seamus Malin led the onslaught with four goals in a game that was almost as wacky as the football contest. Morningside Heights Field had a baseball diamond, complete with rock-hard infield, at each end, and a Little League football field ran across the middle...
President Eisenhower denounced both men as traitors and suggested that the entire U.S. security-clearance procedure be reviewed. Harry Truman thought they should be shot. The U.S. intelligence community braced for an onslaught of congressional investigations. Meanwhile, back in Moscow, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, their babbling press conference brought to a halt by a Soviet official who thought it was going on too long, began to sink into the limbo that the Soviet Union reserves for turncoats who have been milked of their last drop of propaganda value...
...appointment to the Supreme Court. Along with an impressive intellect. Frankfurter has a sparrow's cockiness and a high-pitched, pedantic voice that often drives opponents to distraction. During the 19305 he was disliked and feared by conservatives as the legal strategist of F.D.R.'s onslaught on "economic royalists." As a member of the Supreme Court, on the contrary, he has been disliked and feared by liberals because of his conservative doctrine of judicial self-restraint-the belief that the Supreme Court should only interpret and apply laws, while leaving the creation of new law to legislatures...
...have fared so poorly. Says Hous ton: "Their art is the one thing that can preserve their pride in their Eskimo identity. So long as their art remains true and vital and coveted by the outside world, they will be saved from hopeless apathy in the face of the onslaught of the almighty kadluna [white man]. After they learn to cope with their new world, their art may die. All I ask is that it will then have served its purpose...