Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because although Harvard goalie Jennifer White held UNH to only two goals in the first period--no small feat considering the 17 shots the Cats reeled off--she could not stop forward Vivienne Ferry's breakaway blast at 12:08 of the second period that began the onslaught that led to the Wildcat rout...
...addition, young, affluent professionals have mobilized their own coalition of candidates this year, leading both liberal and conservative pols to wonder whether their traditional political bases in ethnic working-class neighborhoods will survive the onslaught of newcomers to Cambridge...
...verbal onslaught was the most dramatic sign yet that the days of free wheeling and free spending by the military are over. In Reagan's first term, Congress heeded the President's call to rearm America by giving the Pentagon $1.1 trillion to spend, a 36% increase after inflation. But irked by scandals over $436 hammers and $600 toilet seats and squeezed by the burgeoning budget deficits, Congress has increasingly begun to question whether the U.S. is getting its money's worth in defense spending...
...socialism measures power in terms of "the number of workers, not in the use if violence," he said. Shawki cited Solidarity in Poland as a movement of great power because of the number of workers involved and because it recognized that it might have to "defend itself against the onslaught of a ruling class...
...business executives and economists discuss such arcane tactics as dumping or trademark protection, but the basic questions are far less bewildering. Will America adopt a defensive or an offensive strategy in the world economy? Will the U.S. build up seemingly strong walls to protect its domestic industries against an onslaught of goods from abroad? Or will it strive to continue as a leading economic power at the forefront of technology by pushing into new markets at home and overseas...