Word: onslaught
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...players, Borotra and LaCoste. Westbrook and Snodgrass crushed them before the semifinal. William T. ("Big-Hearted Bill") Tilden II, National singles champion, played with his 1924 protege, young Sandy Weiner of Philadelphia, and got nowhere. "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin, 1921 champions, went down before the Australian onslaught in the semifinal...
...miners to seize the mines and hold them until the employers came to terms. Strikebreakers were employed by the mine owners and had a rough time. At Gelsenkirchen 600 maddened miners' wives rushed the Königsgrube Mine to oust the "blacklegs"; the men fled before their terrible onslaught...
...anticipated attack by Russia upon Rumania over the Bessarabian bugaboo (TIME, April 14) was fortified during the week by numerous rumors concerning Russian mobilization on the Bessarabian border. No clash took place, however, and none is likely to lake place, according to some reports. A deep-dyed irredentist propaganda onslaught against Rumania and all those countries who recognize the Rumanian annexation of Bessarabia was reported to have been begun...
...working people of the world will not be able to grasp it. ... For more than ten months the second onslaught of the illness continued. ... As the physicians bitterly remarked, the blood vessels were playing with our Lenin all the time...
...United States bowed before the onslaught of the powerful Canadian hockey team yesterday in the finals of the Olympic tournament by a 6-1 score. The Maple Leaf skaters are now the world amateur hockey champions...