Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blacks in America, history is an odd sort of thing. After spending 400 years surviving a non-stop onslaught of enslavement, lynching, torture, illegal imprisonment and a host of other crimes whose magnitude and variety are nearly impossible even to catalogue--after all that, the historical record still gets twisted, edited and ignored by far too many people...
After the first Harvard goal on a Ken Code power play slapshot 354 into the game--the Harvard fans joyously sprayed the Cornell defensive zone with hundreds of multi-colored tennis balls and one live and pleasantly pick chicken. The onslaught was directed at Cornell goaltender Darren Eliot, who promptly headed for the safety of his own bench...
...Supreme Court withstood one such Administration onslaught last week when it refused to hear a Tennessee school busing case that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school in both city and suburban school districts. Last November, the Justice Department joined the city's appeal of a circuit court decision backing the plan because it found that Nashville schools are still segregated even after 27 years of civil rights litigation...
...guard on A level or maybe One was moving around again to the tune of soft Latin rock. Jack and Jill were soon awake enough to get down to strategy. According to what they'd heard and the unexpected difficulty of staying hidden, the mass janitorial onslaught at 7 a.m. was going to be a serious problem. Bluntly put, if they tried to go upstairs they were probably dead. The noises increased upstairs. As the chances of actually making it to the 9 a.m. survival deadline improved. Jack and Jill, perversely, became more and more scared...
...aquatic life in at least 10% of New England's 226 largest fresh-water lakes. On Cape Cod in Massachusetts, fishery biologists have stopped restocking eight of the area's top ten fishing ponds because the waters are too acidic for young trout to survive in; the onslaught has spurred experimentation with new breeds of acid-resistant fish...