Word: overran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru's orders, Indian forces invaded the tiny, 451-year-old Portuguese colony of Goa on India's west coast. In a three-pronged attack, crack Sikh and Dogra troops of the Indian army's 17th Division, abetted by gunfire and air force jets, overran Goa and the Portuguese enclaves of Diu and Damao in a naked act of aggression that forever tarnished Nehru's self-burnished image as an apostle of peace...
Avenues, colonnades, and shops were part of a rebuilding project begun about 400 A.D. Disaster struck this sumptuous quarter of the city some 200 years later when Persian invaders overran Sardis. Byzantine engineers later levelled the toppled columns, walls and other debris and on top laid a much humbler cobble-paved road...
...Pentagon confirmed that the story was all too probable. Four U.S. soldiers stationed with the Laotian army as PEO military advisers were lost when the Pathet Lao overran Vang Vieng ten weeks ago. Also missing are three helicopter crewmen and an NBC photographer who went down in a crash behind enemy lines and a Long Island contractor who disappeared on a hunting trip...
Born 60 years ago of U.S. missionary parents in the Chinese coastal city of Chefoo, Robert McCann considered China his home. When the Japanese overran the country in the late 19305, he lingered on, clinging to his auto business in Tientsin. Interned after Pearl Harbor, he was repatriated in an exchange of U.S. and Japanese internees in 1943. But at war's end. he hurried back to his business in Tien tsin. His wife Flora remained behind in California with their three children. Mc Cann prospered even through the Chinese civil war. And when the Communists took Tientsin...
Fortnight ago 5,000 Burmese troops attacked and overran the Nationalist headquarters at Mongpa-Liao. Caught between the Burmese and the Chinese Communist border guards, the Nationalists poured over the neighboring borders of Laos and Thailand. Last week Bangkok proposed to evacuate them to Formosa. It was the end for the last Nationalist Chinese fighting force on the mainland of Asia...