Word: onslaughts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Supreme Court withstood one such Administration onslaught last week when it refused to hear a Tennessee school busing case that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school in both city and suburban school districts. Last November, the Justice Department joined the city's appeal of a circuit court decision backing the plan because it found that Nashville schools are still segregated even after 27 years of civil rights litigation...
...guard on A level or maybe One was moving around again to the tune of soft Latin rock. Jack and Jill were soon awake enough to get down to strategy. According to what they'd heard and the unexpected difficulty of staying hidden, the mass janitorial onslaught at 7 a.m. was going to be a serious problem. Bluntly put, if they tried to go upstairs they were probably dead. The noises increased upstairs. As the chances of actually making it to the 9 a.m. survival deadline improved. Jack and Jill, perversely, became more and more scared...
...aquatic life in at least 10% of New England's 226 largest fresh-water lakes. On Cape Cod in Massachusetts, fishery biologists have stopped restocking eight of the area's top ten fishing ponds because the waters are too acidic for young trout to survive in; the onslaught has spurred experimentation with new breeds of acid-resistant fish...
...year-old "Mula" Pisar, the terror began on June 22, 1941. On that day, after two years of Soviet occupation, "the bad was succeeded by the worst." Germany turned on its ally to the East and the Red Army crumbled under the onslaught. Nazi shock troops swept into Bialystok, the city with the second-largest Jewish population in Poland, and wasted no time implementing the Fubrer's plans. On the first Friday of the occupation, Pisar recalls, over a thousand Bialystok Jews were herded into the city's Great Synagogue, which was then set aflame. The following Sabbath, hundreds...
...onslaught continued in the second half, wearing down the Tiger defense with three more touchdowns. Yale quarterbacks Joe Dufek and Mike Luzzi both performed well, combining to hit on seven of 11 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown...