Word: onslaught
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Student Council expediency collapsed like a punctured balloon before the onslaught of class-spirited indignation as Council members reneged on their previous decision last night, revising the entire '48 Permanent Class Committee election procedure...
First warning of the onslaught came on Thursday, October 21, when a solitary brave wandered into the Stoughton Hall quarters of one David B. Shaw and demanded lodging for the night. Ughing something about the provisions of a gift of bricks used to build the original Stoughton Hall in 1695, he claimed that the building's charter entitled all Indians to free lodging in the Yard dormitory...
...lived up to his promise, for Friday afternoon a whole tribe of "noble savages," dressed in blankets and other Indian trimmings, made a full-scale attack on Stoughton. Yard cops and students, however, managed to repulse the onslaught, and the red-men had to be content with pitching a tepee north of the Old Pump...
...Student Council is today mobilizing agents from every entry in the College for a full-scale onslaught on undergraduates' pocketbooks in an attempt to raise $25,000 for charity, scholarships, College activities, and Council expenses. Opening gun will be fired tonight...
...Salzburg Festival's main event last week was a different kind of opera. Listeners found few tunes to whistle when they came away from Danton's Death, the new opera by Gottfried von Einem. But few could for get the sheer violence of Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant thunder from...