Word: onslaught
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...senile-official Temps gives as its opinion that the Philippines should be returned to Palestine in order to prevent the coming onslaught of the Japanese against American Imperialism in the Latin Quarter...
What prompted this onslaught upon the Supreme Court was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, before the Senate for confirmation. Because his appointment was discussed under the Senate's new open-session rules, all the world could follow the bitter ebb and flow of debate which a year ago would have been secret. Likewise thrown aside was the taboo that the Supreme Court is sacrosanct and thus above criticism...
Thus strangely naiïve and careless of utterance were the chiropractors,* who, despite their 20,000 practitioners and legal permission to work in 36 states and the District of Columbia,* are confessedly degenerating before the hard onslaught of the American Medical Association. They permitted Mrs. Palmer, the Mabel of Mr. Palmer's speech, to tell an anecdote of a woman friend who, all panting and excited, came wailing to her: "Oh, my dear, I have had such a harrowing experience. I was dining with a very dear friend. After we got up she said, 'Oh, I feel sick...
...Boston University team, in attempting to clear from in front of the net, accidently slipped the puck by Grodberg for the first score for the Crimson. Shortly after this, Berholtz was put off the ice for tripping, and the Terriers found themselves unable to stave off the bitter onslaught of the Harvard forwards, and two goals were scored on them in rapid succession...
Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter social season just ahead." She announced a few of her recipes in advance. Explained Mrs. Doran: "Prohibition took something away from the American people, but we can give them something just as good-a cocktail that satisfies but does not inebriate. . . . Mince pie is delicious without brandy-if made properly...