Word: onslaughts
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...difference is power--not until last year did the city government gain control over the growth of non-profit institutions. And now, with half the city tied up by non-taxable institutional uses and neighborhoods slowly shrinking before the onslaught of labs, dormitories and offices, city officials are preparing to exercise that power with a vengeance...
...wore a black dress, Labor M.P. William Hamilton had pointed a taunting finger at her and inquired derisively, "Is she dressed in black because of the unemployment figures?" Now she was meticulously turned out in a tailored gray suit, a soft white bow at her neck, to face another onslaught. In her coolly accented voice, she delivered a forceful and familiar message: only sound money and competitive industry can bring down inflation and eventually create new jobs for Britain...
...days since the return of the hostages, the headlines and the news columns have been given over to jingosim and sentimentality. "Nuke Iran" buttons are making a resurgence, and "Buy Iraqi War Bonds" has appeared on many bumpers. That the American public has given way so quickly to this onslaught of false patriotism and true bigotry, that too many of us believe the Iranians are truly "barbarians," that some have called on President Reagan to break our word to another country after 14 months of decrying violations of international law--these are all distressing signs. Can it be we have...
...Yalta conference in 1945, preparing for the final onslaught against Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt and Churchill gave tacit approval to the notion that Eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence" after the defeat of their common enemy. It became more than that. By 1948 Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia had acquired Communist governments, either by the force of Soviet arms or by political subversion...
Under the onslaught of its fame, the town behaved with mostly unruffled dignity and hospitality. But after a few patently successful attempts at informal mass communication-the telephone call-ins, the fireside chat in cardigan sweater-Jimmy retreated into his "nuclear" engineer's privacy, screened by a Georgia Mafia who lacked even the abrasive charm of basic good ole boys or the Kennedys' strident boyos. Nobody in Plains was exactly sure why Jimmy stayed away, but there were theories: possible embarrassment at Billy's high jinks, displeasure at the crude local commercialism, or maybe even advice from...