Word: onslaughts
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...military onslaught on Gaza last week has been cripplingly devastating for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live—or lived—there. Already, over 400 Palestinians have died, with over 200 killed on the first day of the offensive—the single bloodiest since 1967. Over 1400 are wounded—the majority of whom are women and children—and receiving inadequate medical attention due, in large part, to the long-term Israeli blockade of the Strip...
...Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity have much in common. They share a common adherence to ancient liturgy and traditionalist doctrine. Like Pope Benedict XVI, Alexy was a stern critic of what he saw as increasingly lax morals in contemporary culture, calling on Europe to defend its Christian roots from the onslaught of secularism. Observers of both churches have noted that Benedict's first trip outside of Rome as Pope was to the southeastern Italian city of Bari, which is considered sacred by the Orthodox Church because it holds the relics of the revered Saint Nicolas. Benedict had been hoping to meet...
...suitcase on my first trip to Iraq eight months ago, as Iraqi and U.S. forces clashed with radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, I would have been forced to wear whatever our male Iraqi security guards picked out without me. Last March, I arrived to an onslaught of rockets and mortars fired at the nearby Green Zone, along with retaliatory coalition air strikes and the near constant thunder of helicopter blades overhead. As with other foreign reporters, my movements were always calculated, and I often donned a long black abaya and head scarf. But this time around...
...couple [of] defensive breakdowns and unlucky bounces,” Hoyle said. “I personally made a mistake I shouldn’t have made by allowing them to score two goals so close to each other.” Prior to the Bobcats’ offensive onslaught late in the third period, Harvard kept toe-to-toe with Quinnipiac by responding with a goal of its own whenever falling behind. Back-and-forth play characterized much of the first period, and it wasn’t until Beaudoin scored at 8:55 to give the Bobcats...
...left the breach open for the best part of a week before sealing it and renewing Egypt's insistence that it would open the border crossing only to Abbas' men. Now, in the midst of a new political firestorm created by the impression of Egyptian complicity in Israel's onslaught, pressure on Cairo is once again mounting. Still, Mubarak reiterated on Tuesday that Rafah would be opened only when the Palestinian Authority is in charge of Gaza...