Word: onslaught
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...Historian Knollenberg's voice is not always dispassionate, this is due to the fact that his book is less an onslaught on Washington than a book-bat heaved in a historians' squabble. Conspicuous on the receiving end is Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, editor of the Bicentennial edition of Washington's works...
Burt Whitman of the Herald: "The best I can do on this one is to say that everything depends on the boys' mental and physical condition as they take the field. Harvard should prove superior of the ground, but she will have to beat of a dangerous aerial onslaught. The Crimson forward wall has the call over it's rival...
...preserve their own culture, their way of life, were forced to take up arms and be prepared to fight. In those days many communities became alarmed too late. They did not understand the real menace of a fanatical and effective military power. Unprepared, they failed to withstand the onslaught. For the inhabitants of these conquered nations there were then three choices: death, or servitude, or conversion to the new religion, is it different on the continent of Europe at this very moment...
Once the enormous onslaught was well under way, the Germans apologized for its delay. They explained they had had to prepare hundreds of fighting air bases in newly occupied territory, sending in hundreds of thousands of the Labor Corps for this purpose. They had had to move up vast quantities of flying fuel and lubricants, mountains of bombs, of machine-gun and cannon ammunition, parachutes, spare parts. They had had to build barracks, hangars, shops, anti-aircraft and other gun emplacements, including emplacements on the Channel for heavy artillery from the Maginot Line. U. S. correspondents who toured the Luftwaffe...
...advisers on the Committee's next step. Last year during his mountain stay the U. S. waited, alarmed but unbelieving, for Adolf Hitler to plunge into Poland and launch the War. Last week it waited for a blow nearer home-for the full force of the Nazi onslaught to fall on the British Isles. No longer was it necessary last week for William Allen White or the Committee to argue that the U. S. had a vital interest in the way the war turned out. There had never been any doubt that the overwhelming mass of U. S. citizens...