Word: onslaughts
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...attended only one other East bloc party congress this year, in East Berlin, and his presence in Warsaw clearly demonstrated Moscow's satisfaction with Jaruzelski's progress since he became First Secretary in 1981. The Soviet leader expansively praised Jaruzelski and lauded Warsaw's success in "repulsing the onslaught of the enemies of socialism...
...Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...
...even bother to mention the nuts and bolts of the Harvard education because, after four years, we are so accustomed to the limitations and failings of the undergraduate program that we largely take them for granted--much in the same way that we mutely accept the weekly onslaught of ham and "schrod...
...Commencement is the busiest day of the year, I think," said a cashier at Store 24. She said that cashiers work extra shifts, and they come to work earlier than usual to prepare for the day's onslaught...
...military situation. Says one Western ambassador: "We used to ask how long the Iraqis could sustain such costly victories. Now we wonder how long they can sustain such costly defeats." Nonetheless, the Iraqi command seems to have regained its composure since the first weeks of the Iranian onslaught. They are well prepared for a long-predicted Iranian offensive through the Hawazia marshes that flank the highway north of Basra, which is just 50 miles from Fao. Defensive earthworks have been built along the road, with machine-gun nests and tank positions placed every 500 yards. The Iraqi brass is determined...