Word: onslaught
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Dyke Benjamin, recovered from his poison ivy, led the Crimson onslaught which placed eleven of its twelve men before Dartmouth's first finisher...
More Goods. As for the overall onslaught of inflation, Jacobsson voiced an optimism that took some of his listeners by surprise: "In some countries, at least, recent increases in the cost of living may be partly regarded as a belated adjustment to earlier inflation in that the cost-of-living indexes have shown a much smaller increase than the wholesale prices. Commodity prices have been falling for some time now on the world markets, and quotations on stock exchanges have shown considerable weakness. There are indeed some signs that inflation may no longer be dominating the whole economic pattern...
Nineteen states have already established flu advisory councils; the Red Cross is advertising home nursing courses especially for the feared onslaught; confused priority and quota systems for vaccine distribution are being mulled over by local and national health authorities; and a small vaccine black market is in operation...
...ready for the usual onslaught of mail from readers and new ex-readers who can't see that the selection for your cover indicates interest, not approval...
This insistence that learning craves response, however imperfectly put, is the best contribution in i.e. It will come up later in considering alternatives to present methods; the trouble with this polemic issue of i.e. was that it did not study other ways. Even so, its blunderbuss onslaught was useful in stimulating thought, especially among some students who would ordinarily never think about education and what it ought to mean...