Word: onslaught
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Harvard spent much of the first period trying to recover from that first goal. The Crimson seemed unsure with the puck, hesitating to shoot or pass, especially on the power play. Still, Harvard avoided the first-period onslaught that doomed the team in its February loss to the Big Red and skated into the locker room down just a goal...
...tethered and gird for a defense of the capital. But in order to inspire even loyal forces to defend Baghdad and other key cities, Saddam's priority would be to avoid collapse in the face of U.S. bombing. That requires not only demonstrating that he has survived the initial onslaught, but also that at least some of his units are resisting the invasion - a tall order, perhaps, the face of the overwhelming air and ground assault planned by the U.S and its allies, but coalition commanders certainly have reason to hope the regime won't last long enough to force...
...exactly what we did," he says, insisting the conscripts overlooking his town would be looking to do the same thing this time. He worries though that hardline intelligence and secret police officers have been put into the units to ensure the men stay and try to weather the U.S. onslaught. "Once it starts the first fight will be behind the lines to see who wins the argument to surrender or not," he says...
McAuliffe’s goal put Harvard ahead 6-3 at the end of the second period and Ruggiero made it 7-3 on a power-play opportunity 31 seconds into the third, scoring on a wicked wrist shot. The Crimson scored three more goals to finish the onslaught...
...regardless of the visceral repulsion that the mask first gave me, it revealed a huge part of his and many other athlete’s character. In Cheevers’ mask I see a burning desire to play because why else would anyone subject himself to an onslaught of pucks and huge, angry men? I see dedication in training because those hours crouching in the goal could not have been fun. I see the ability to work with a team to fulfill a lifelong dream to be the unequivocal best...