Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adam Barr is best when he is ordinary Avan imperial Russian minister, he seems stiffer that even the role would call for. But as the straight man to cruel fate, he excels. He reaches his peak as a pathetic gouty banker descending into madness under the onslaught of an aggressive female...
...final half showed him prophetic as Kirkland goalie Charlie Weeks skillfully blocked an onslaught of shots...
...guided by sensors and thrusters to a head-on collision with the missile. But as many as 20,000 rockets orbiting aboard many hundreds of satellites might be required to keep enough within range of Soviet launch sites at all times to fend off a full- scale missile onslaught...
...shooting led the way for the Bruins' onslaught. The Ivy leaders shot 55 percent from the field and made all 13 of their free throws during the second half...
Although he would never presume to make the comparison directly, it is hard to believe that Weinberger, 67, does not see links between his mission at the Pentagon and Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union...