Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cells, including more helper T cells and macrophages. The immune system, deprived of a crucial number of those vital T cells, is unable to direct the fight against infection. A host of opportunistic diseases, normally warded off by a healthy immune system, attacks the body. Gradually weakened by the onslaught, the AIDS victim dies, sometimes in months, but almost always within a few years of the first symptoms. By last week this appalling scenario had been played out to its fatal conclusion in some 15,000 Americans. Another 11,500 were under assault, showing the telltale symptoms of the disease...
...sooner had the meeting been announced than the usually calm, almost phlegmatic capital (pop. 87,000 -- about the size of Sioux City, Iowa) began madcap preparations for the onslaught of some 1,500 journalists and White House and Kremlin staffers who are to accompany President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev. Reykjavik's several hundred rental cars were immediately snapped up, and the hardy Icelanders, whose unyielding environment has taught them to take advantage of every opportunity, began offering private cars for rent...
...clergyman's study, the lawyer's book-lined room, the well-placed camping tent, or the cozy room at the inn or club, with fortifying drinks at hand. But soon a vague unease, a chill in the air, or else a strong shock undermines or shatters composure. No rhetorical onslaught . . . can equal it; the intrusion, fluid and elusive or sharp and violent, destroys all past security." King begins with all the reassuring American trappings: the 7-Eleven stores, the ribbons of superhighway, the town high schools that seem part of an ordered landscape. Then come the hints of malaise...
Saturday's onslaught began 11 minutes into the first half, when Catliff lined a pass from linemate Drory Tendler into the upper right corner...
...possible. The $250,000 U.S. aid package, which included tents and food supplies, came in response to a request from Biya for assistance. Canada, Britain, West Germany and Spain also responded to the call, sending money and tons of medical and food supplies. Cameroonian officials, as unsettled by the onslaught of relief aid as by the crisis itself, quickly set up a national disaster committee. "Our first priority," announced Committee Chairman Jean Marcel Mengueme, "is to set our priorities...