Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's cross country team continued its onslaught against Ivy competitors yesterday, soundly defeating Brown 17 45 in a dual meet hosted by the Bruins. The victory raised Harvard's record to 3-1 overall and 3.0 in the Ivies...
BEFORE 1980, a "hit list" was something only rival Mafia families worried about. But when the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) adapted the concept to U.S. Senate races by targeting liberal Democrats for an onslaught of negative media advertising, "hit list" joined the American political lexicon for good. And the committee's sharpshooters hit their marks with stunning accuracy--NCPAC-backed conservatives handily defeated progressive stalwarts like George McGovern, Frank Church and Birch Bayh. The chilling words of NCPAC chief Terry Dolan--"we want people to hate Birch Bayh without even knowing why"--conveyed an unmistakable message to jittery...
Credit for stemming the Lions onslaught for most of the match goes to junior Phil Coogan, who twice look out charging Columbia forwards at the edge of the penalty box and found himself diving across the goal mouth on one-handed saves too many times to count...
...face of this onslaught, the minority students backed off, saying that they had never intended Greenberg's race to be an issue. Saying this argument was tangential, the students contended that they really objected only to the insensitivity they perceived on the part of the Law School administration, in their handling of the race course, and of minority hiring in general. "The fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions," BLSA executive committee member Donald Christopher Tyler wrote in a recent letter to The Crimson. A press release issued...
...have had a bad press, but it's not a worse press than they had a right to expect." Israel's real problem was neither the bias of correspondents nor poor propaganda packaging, but something far more serious: the lack of a readily convincing justification for the onslaught on West Beirut...