Word: onslaughts
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Black self-identity is destroyed, he said, by aconstant onslaught of racist and white-supremacistteachings...
...Black in the modern world," he said, "isto be thrown...into a state where one is at war"with the onslaught of identity-denying tenets...
This high-velocity onslaught of new ideas and technologies seemed to ratify older dreams of a perfectible life on earth, of an existence in which the shocks of nature had been tamed. But the unleashing of unparalleled progress was also accompanied by something quite different: a massive regression toward savagery. If technology endowed humans with Promethean aspirations and powers, it also gave them the means to exterminate one another...
...20th century brought an explosion of change and an onslaught of high technology...
...almost constant bombardment, now well into its fourth month, by Serb forces firing from the surrounding hillsides. All day, every day, the talk in the building hallways is of Western military intervention or, failing that, distribution of weapons so that the 300,000 people of Sarajevo can repel the onslaught with their own hands. "The liberation of the town is more important than food," says Puzic, 37, an economist and mother of two. "We all fear that the West now thinks it has done enough...