Word: overran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Defense civilian employee in Viet Nam who reported to the Pentagon on the performance of the South Vietnamese navy, was aboard one of the Vietnamese ships when the fighting erupted. For safety's sake he was put ashore on Pattle Island, but Chinese troops overran the island and captured Kosh...
...told King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared in the sky on the eve of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. William the Conqueror told his Norman soldiers that the comet was indeed a bad omen...
...write a history of Mississippi. But when he arrived for graduate work at the University of Illinois, he teamed up with Civil War historian James G. Randall, studying Lincoln and the northern radicals. In Donald's academic life, as in the war he studied, the North promptly overran Mississippi...
Kalkilya is a Moslem community of 10,000 on the West Bank of the Jordan River, 13 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. During the Six-Day War, Israeli soldiers overran Kalkilya, destroying half the town and uprooting many of its lush, productive citrus groves. With help from Israel's government, the town has since been largely rebuilt, but it remains under what its inhabitants regard as enemy rule. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief William Marmon recently visited Kalkilya and sent this report...
...large field hard by Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. In recent years, with rock festivals failing on all sides, Newport had become a new chosen land of the Huns of Aquarius. Last year, when a noisy and violent horde broke through a chain-link fence and overran the paying customers while Dionne Warwicke was singing, Wein had enough; he canceled the show. A few days later, the Newport city fathers canceled the festival permanently. "I cried for a while," recalls Wein. "But there was nothing I could...