Word: onslaught
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...people might have hoped that its representatives would rise to a unique and critical occasion. That they did no better than they did-or no worse -should have surprised no one. They were, after all, representative of the people, and the people themselves were not yet steadied to the onslaught of peace...
Each Crimson goal succeeded in tying the count, but constant pressure from the B.A.A. offense eventually resulted in an onslaught of scores. Fine defense work by George Tilghman and goal keeper John Knowles' valiant efforts were unable to stem the tide...
With Ted Norris, Johnny Watkins, and Howard Simpson sparking the onslaught, the tank men drowned Connecticut State Saturday afternoon by a score of 52 to 21. Winning every event except the 50 yard freestyle and the dive, and taking ten of the fourteen win and place slots, the swimmers took an early lead that increased as the meet wore...
...congressional committee room rang last week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...
Later (1925) came Arrowsmith, an onslaught on the mass production of doctors and mass practice and humbuggery of medicine, a romantic apotheosis of the medical scientist. Dodsworth (1929), the esthetic and amatory adventures of Samuel Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George...