Word: onslaught
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Before her husband's political onslaught of last week, Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, a comfortable home body and next to Royalty the outstanding bazaar-opener of the Realm, admitted that she had again held a winning ticket in a charity lottery...
Assembling at 2:45 p. m. the House began to debate Clause 17 of Mr. Snowden's budget (TIME, April 21). At 12:30 a. m. that night Mr. Churchill, weary from his hours of onslaught, snarled: "How much longer does the Chancellor of the Exchequer intend to keep this House in session...
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, appeared to have captured the Honan airplane base of his enemies by a surprise onslaught of his famed "Big Sword Cavalry...
...attempted organization of contemplative discussion groups. The increased effort necessary to produce the slightest response, and the obvious failure of such organization has born testimony to the changing current of student expression. In recognizing this condition, the Phillips Brooks House has by no means fallen before the onslaught of a new college generation; rather it has anticipated the present state and so adapted itself as to turn the changing current of undergraduate opinion into a broader channel of religious service...
...gruelling meet which was not decided until the last bout, the Freshman wrestlers went down before the Yale onslaught to a 20 to 16 defeat in Hemenway Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon...