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Word: onslaughts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts, he baits, but he never refrains from slugging it out. He punishes his opponents, and occasionally his readers, with an aggressive and assertive style. The prose of these essays is a relentless onslaught...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Who's Ruptured the Comity? | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

...Terriers never really had a chance. Rich Guerra began the onslaught by scoring four minutes into the game, and Fasi provided three more talllies--the last of which he backhanded past a bewildered B.U. goalie--before the quarter ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo Overwhelms B.U.; Roberts, Fasi Destroy Visitors | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

...tenth round Holmes went to work, landing heavy combinations to Ali's body and head. The champion never staggered Ali, but Ali did nothing to discourage the onslaught of blows...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Holmes Spoils Ali's Return With Eleventh-Round TKO | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

Martin had plenty of help in the onslaught, as B.U. put up little more than traffic-cone resistance to the Crimson attack. At the end of the first half, Harvard held a 2-0 lead, and 20-0 advantage in shots...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Stickwomen Steamroll Terriers, 6-0 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...protect themselves and their families against the onslaught of starving urbanites who manage to escape the cities, many survivalists have turned their homes into virtual arsenals. As a guide, they can use Kurt Saxon's The Poor Man's James Bond, a handbook of "improvised weaponry and do-it-yourself mayhem," with simple instructions for making firearms, tear gas, explosives, zip guns and even flamethrowers. Saxon, 48, is an Ozarks-based writer and publisher. Like many survivalists, he is inspired by romantic notions of frontier self-reliance. He has six guns of his own, and come Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Planning for the Apocalypse Now | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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