Word: onslaught
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Over the border in Syria (French mandate), whence the Earl had gone presumably at the invitation of the French, things were different. At Damascus, a furious mob twice attacked his hotel. The second onslaught, which started in "The Street That is Called Straight," almost ended in disaster, for when the gendarmes had nearly been overpowered French troops appeared and spanked off, with the flats of their swords, the seething crowd, which was yelling "Down with Balfour...
...succumbed to the onslaught of the Republicans, and Senator Stanfield was elected to succeed him. He served for a time on the Shipping Board and then retired?only to emerge once more on behalf of Oregon and her school...
...seemed the logical way to provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty was signed, was breaking down and that France's other allies (CzechoSlovakia, Rumania, Yugo- slavia, Belgium, Poland) were not strong enough to stay a German onslaught on the Franco-German frontier...
...must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli was determined to acquit himself well. Fiercely he struggled against the onslaught of Jeritza, flung her from him as prescribed; but ah! too boisterous was the fling. Headlong went she, to land in the glass and metal of the footlights, spraining and cutting her wrist. She arose, the performance went on to its applauded end. Two days later, she appeared, as Thais with...
...dissolution also secured). While Mr. Hughes was becoming New York's Governor, Supreme Court member, presidential candidate, Mr. Kellogg continued his legal practice, became President of the American Bar Association. In 1916, Minnesota elected him to the Senate. He was not adept in politics and fell before the onslaught of Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead when he stood for re-election...