Word: onslaught
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...true monument? . . . A picture comes to my mind of 1915?a crowded theatre in London, the sudden onslaught of bombs dropping from high up in the air, the rush of startled humanity to the open street, defenceless mortals running hither and thither, a woman screaming as she clutched to her breast the bloody body of a year-old baby and watched her baby's head pitch to the gutter...
...about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed to be peculiarly liable to deterioration in old men, to communicable infection in young. Last week, yielding only to the onslaught of age, M. Poincarè stepped briskly from his apartment, motored to a clinic, and next morning with firm step walked to the operating table on which he laid him down...
...leads the obstreperous Left Unionist Bloc, was last week the first anti-ratifica-tionist to cross a potent sword with M. Briand as the Foreign Minister assumed the Government's defense. With fire and slash M. Franklin-Bouillion sought to destroy by an emotional onslaught the Government's chief logical reason why France must ratify her debt agreement not later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France for War stocks purchased from...
...United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
Defending his client from the onslaught of the effervescent tycoons was black-gowned Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed lawyer, author of ponderous tomes, former Minister of Labor. But brash M. Reboux did not rely alone on the fame of oratorical Maître Paul-Boncour. Impressed with the formidable forces against him, he appealed for help to the Syndicat des Journalistes, an organization comparable to the U. S. Authors' League...