Word: onslaughts
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...