Word: onslaughts
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Despite the offensive onslaught, Crimson Coach Chris Hafferty credited the Crimson's domination to tenacious defensive play. Goalies Dan Oakes and Peter Toot divided the time in the Harvard net, each allowing only five goals during their 14-minute stints...
Countering the onslaught were Harvard's Tara Weinstock, Erin Matias, Tracy Hackeling and Tory Fair. They scrambled, body-blocked and slid into everything. They even banged some heads. And they almost bounced out the inevitable--a loose ball in the goalbox...
Such difficulties have revived a debate over U.S. defense needs in the post- cold war world that had seemed all but settled. No longer faced with the threat of a Soviet onslaught in Europe, it appeared that America could safely spend far less on military might. Only two days before Iraqi armored units rolled into Kuwait, the House had slashed $24 billion from the Pentagon's $307 billion proposed budget, eliminating such high-priced weapons as the B-2 Stealth bomber and mobile MX missile. The Senate was only slightly more restrained, chopping $18 billion. While disagreeing with some items...
...other end of the political spectrum, alarms sounded. Women's organizations promised to battle any nominee likely to provide the key vote that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion. Referring to the political onslaught by civil rights groups and liberal forces that derailed Ronald Reagan's effort to elevate Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, Democratic consultant Roger Craver predicted that "the Bork nomination will seem mild compared with the political mobilization and pressure that will be brought upon the Senate over this nomination...
Experts attribute the growing onslaught of skin cancer to the new affluence of Americans in the years after World War II. That was when they began taking vacations in the Sunbelt and the Caribbean; adopting the sun-worshiping culture, as well as the music, of the Beach Boys; and jogging endlessly in skimpy clothes. Because the effects of sunlight on the skin are cumulative and usually require years of exposure before malignancy begins, the results are just showing up now. The Harvard Medical School Health Letter has neatly summarized the situation: "The bronzed youth of the baby boom, now reaching...