Word: onslaughts
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While all of the artists speak of integrating their work into the stations, the large part of this integration is a matter of avoiding the elements: vandalism, grafitti, normal wear and tear. Almost everything is armed for the onslaught. Materials such as stone, bronze and brick defy mutilation. Destructibles are out of reach. The message is clear: give the kids plastic, keep the china in the dining room...
...forward Donna Fichera led the Eagle onslaught with a hat trick--one goal per period--and an assist, while treammate Eaglet Connie Wilson fed the puck to Fichera on each tally and sparked the B.C. offense throughout the game...
...second phase of the onslaught, the invasion by Soviet ground forces, took place between Dec. 29 and 31. One Soviet motorized rifle division, with at least 12,000 men, rolled down the western route from Kushka, in the Soviet Union, to Kandahar. Another streamed in from the Soviet city of Termez over the road that passes through the Salang Pass to Bagram and Kabul. At the time the Soviets built this second route about 15 years ago, some Afghans had noted that the highway seemed strong and wide enough to accommodate tanks and troop carriers...
...Besides (as some Muslim leaders know), Communism is far more inimical to Islam than capitalism. But in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been a chief participant in a cultural encounter that is in some ways even more traumatic to the world of Islam than colonialism: the full onslaught of secular, materialist modernization, 20th century civilization sweeping into the timeless Muslim villages. The vast apparatus of Western progress, a machine overwhelmingly vigorous, profoundly tempting and yet decadent by all the disciplines of the Prophet, has threatened Muslim identity...
...edge of the blade. There are lots of scars and some wounds that will never heal. The music remains intact, inviolate. No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it. No other band has ever matched its sound, a particular combination of sonic onslaught and melodic delicacy that is like chamber music in the middle of a commando raid. No other group, in return, has ever had so much asked of it by an audience which takes it as an absolute article of faith that, every time out, The Who plays for mortal stakes...