Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Continuing the passive onslaught, Pearce walked with one out in the top of the fourth, then moved on to third when a sure double-play ball ended up--via secondsacker Valeri--in right field. He put the visitors up by two on Bobby Kelley's deep fly to center shortly after...
...word of interferon spreads, doctors are bracing for an onslaught of pleas from cancer victims and their families. Almost every request will be rejected. IF is still quite rare; in the U.S., only a few hundred patients have received it, most of them for short intervals. All testing so far has been designed to show whether interferon is active against different kinds of cancer, not whether it can effect lasting cures. But even if there were a glut of interferon, the drug would not be handed out indiscriminately; its long-range effects, good or bad, are still not known. Those...
...Supporters as 'Immoral'" one headline reads. LaRouche "tonight derided any person who publicly endorses President Jimmy Carter as 'immoral,' a person to be pitied by his friends and neighbors... There is no error or exaggeration in saying that the economic policies of the Carter administration are Nazi," the LaRouche onslaught continues. Then, the telling blow. "LaRouche qualified his denunciation of Carter by indicating that Republican George Bush was far worse than Carter." The reason? "Bush's campaign has consciously adopted the policies of Nazi Herrmann Goering...(who) proposed to crush the German civilian economy with a massive arms drive...
Saturday's onslaught typified the Crimson's performance in the three-day meet. Headliners David Lundberg, Ron Raikula and Bobby Hacket each won their specialty, the 200-yd. breaststroke, the 200-yd. backstroke and the 1650-yd. freestyle, respectively, but it was the number of Harvard finalists that overwhelmed the opposition...
...turn Lear's tragedy on us, blinding us with spotlights until our eyes tear or shut; deafening us with insidious noise, the constant whir of electric mosquitoes or a four-hour test of the emergency broadcast system; teasing us with snippets of Shakespeare's poetry made impotent by the onslaught of technological power. We are all Lears, Sellars implies, who have turned our backs on love, on simple beauty and grace, on people and objects of substance. Like Lear we mistakenly embrace the shiny, the glossy, the plastic, the metallic--words and things that mean nothing to us when...