Word: onslaught
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...still too early to say whether 1952 was going to be like 1949. Each summer, the onslaught of poliomyelitis reaches its peak in late August or September. Until they could plot that peak on their charts, Public Health statisticians were making no forecasts...
...King's resumption of power has gone off bloodlessly. Norodom I's way of life has changed. Gone are the days of fast cars and jazzbands. Working against time to strengthen Cambodia's army, its economy and its morale against a Communist onslaught, the young King laments: "I can't get home in time for lunch...
...face of such nuclear juggernauts, can civilization survive a totalitarian onslaught? Dr. Bush is optimistic. Another great war need not come, he says, if democracy stocks its arsenal of preparedness -and its arsenal of liberty. The mightiest of modern arms, Dr. Bush concludes, cannot crush free men armed with the resourcefulness and ideals of democracy...
Straus North yesterday trounced Thayer North, 23 to 4, in American League softball. Batterymates Wally Bregman, batting in seven runs with three for four, including a home run, and right-hander Marty Adler led the onslaught...
Sophomore Tony Calmi, wrestling for the first time in varsity competition, put the Crimson in the lead by pinning at 2:47 with a body press, 177-pound Dave Morris continued the onslaught with a pin at 4:20, and heavyweight George Bates used a body press...