Word: onslaughts
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...Sinai, Six months after Israel's establishment its troops entered the Sinai for the first time. Egyptian forces led the onslaught on Israel on May 15, 1948, the day after the British mandate over the territory came to an end. Israel staved off the Arab threat but Egypt refused to negotiate a cease-fire. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion dispatched his army into the Sinai in December as part of an effort to achieve leverage for a reconciliation Adhering to a United Nations security council resolution. Ben-Gurion withdrew from the Sinai in search of peace despite his country...
DIED. Louis Kissinger, 95, father of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; in Manhattan. A teacher in Furth, Germany, the elder Kissinger immigrated to the U.S. with his wife and two sons in 1938, just ahead of the Nazi onslaught, and later worked as a bookkeeper...
With just one senior and one junior in its starting six, the Crimson didn't have the experience to hold together after the early Tiger onslaught, falling...
That calculated Western onslaught was staged before some 300 representatives from 35 countries, reassembled at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to review the 1975 Helsinki accords for the first time since martial law was declared in Poland last Dec. 13. The speeches were too much for Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid Ilyichev. Said he: "We resolutely oppose the efforts forts of of the the NATO bloc, and of of the U.S. in particular, to put on yet another political farce." The torrent of Western condemnation, interrupted only sporadically by East bloc protests, continued for 4½ hours...
...seriousness do surface from time to time, but they slip away too quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity as to where...