Word: onslaughts
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Freshman Peter Richards started the onslaught with a flick goal from 15 meters out just one minute into the game. Mike Johnson and John Marshall tallied power-play goals to stake the Crimson to a 3-1 lead at the end of one quarter...
...continue protesting the resumption of military rule. In the days after the coup, the crack of rifles could be heard as soldiers fired from rooftops at people who had gathered outside the U.S. embassy. Many more were cut down at Sule Pagoda as thousands of people fled the onslaught, screaming when the soldiers lowered their rifles and fired bursts directly at bystanders and protesters. Ambulance drivers were shot at as they went to attend the wounded. "The soldiers will not respect even the doctors," said a medic at Rangoon General Hospital. His crew was kept away from Sule Pagoda...
...death toll from the storm's onslaught through the Caribbean islands and the Yucatan was at least 36, and estimates of the damage have reached $8 billion...
...bombing last March of the village of Halabja in northern Iraq, then held by Iran, with mustard gas, cyanide and a nerve gas. When the deadly yellow and white clouds settled, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bloated Kurdish bodies littered the streets. Despite the incontrovertible evidence of a chemical onslaught, Iraq did not admit to the use of poison gas until July...
Though some plantsmen are willing to sell anything that is different in order to appeal to the instant gardener, others throw up their hands at the onslaught of impatient novices. "They use perennials like annual bedding plants, taking them up every year and cutting them in half and resetting them," recounts Connecticut Nurseryman Fred McGourty in horror. "That is the highest-maintenance form of gardening there can be, but they can't wait for the four years for the plants to grow together...