Word: onslaughts
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...cease-fire is reached so that urgently needed food can be flown in. But the Bush Administration was reluctant to intervene directly, despite its concern that Serbian shelling might hit a major toxic-chemical plant north of Sarajevo and trigger an environmental disaster. Impatience with the Serbian onslaught is growing in the U.S. Senate. Says Senator Richard Lugar: "The time for drawing the line has come...
...gone, but who says network television will never be the same again? Every spring the familiar rituals are repeated: the well-hyped fall-season announcements; another batch of new shows competing for attention (a record-high 35 this season, when Fox is added to the Big Three); a fresh onslaught of optimistic projections from chipper network executives...
...fears the deadly approach of pacifist sentimentality, some variation on those World War I tales of Yuletide fraternization in no-man's-land. A Midnight Clear, which is based on a William Wharton novel, evades that onslaught. Loopy Mother sees to that. And even if he had not come out of his half-mad nowhere to violently abort a very sensible arrangement, there is, after all, a war going on out there somewhere. What hope can there possibly be for humane gesturing...
...Crimson will also have to put together on onslaught of its own on the offensive end of the field...
THROUGH ALL OF THIS, we have learned how to deal with constant rejection. It isn't actually that bad. Some places can be kind of nice when they are telling you that you aren't qualified enough to answer their phones. Of course, we could have avoided the massive onslaught of negative mail by only applying to one or two places, but we didn't trust the Harvard name to swing us into the most lucrative and prestigious summer jobs. We decided we would be better off if we hedged our bets...