Word: overran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-minute overtimes, the teams traded near-misses without scoring. The closest call came when the Crimson goal was left unguarded as Nat Bowditch rushed out after a stray ball--and overran...
...soften up the city, B-26 fighter-bombers, piloted by anti-Castro Cubans supplied by Washington, relentlessly blasted strategic targets. Then a force of 1,000 Congolese army troops launched a two-prong invasion which caught the rebels by surprise. Coming from the north, one column overran the port area and airfield. The other column skirted the city, attacked from the south. When the rebels tried to counterattack, a government armored car's machine gun was waiting for them. The battle raged on for eight hours before the rebels finally fled, but it was one-sided...
When the Red Pathet Lao overran Laos' embattled Plain of Jars last month, the U.S. replied by sending unarmed jets swooping low over Pathet Lao territory. The purpose was partly to photograph troop movements, partly to demonstrate U.S. resolve to stand firm in the Red-threatened little kingdom. But last week, after Communist gunners shot down two American planes in two days, the U.S. decided that shooting back with cameras was not enough-and in a small way Southeast Asia's crisis began to "escalate...
...Communist terrorists shot or stabbed to death six women and five children, wounded 21 other women. Then the Reds mutilated several of the bodies, carving out the victims' hearts and spleens. The government retaliated with less savage successes of its own. Three hundred miles north of Saigon, Rangers overran a Viet Cong ordnance depot, capturing 166 weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps post even tried a bit of Viet Cong-type cunning. Getting word that the Reds planned to cut the post's barbed-wire fence by night...
Refusing to Fade. Surging out of the forest, 1,000 Red troops overran Kienlong in the guerrilla-controlled Camau Peninsula area (see map), killing 60 of the 90 Civil Guard defenders, and publicly disemboweling the district chief, his wife, infant son and two other officials. When the government counterattacked with 2,000 air-supported troops, the guerrillas pulled out of the village. But instead of fading into the landscape, they were reinforced by a third 500-man battalion, making it the Viet Cong's first regimental-size operation. Then the Communists stood and fought half a dozen battles that...