Word: overran
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Ersek, a junior this season, appeared likely to bloom after scoring the game-winning goal in an early-season 2-0 victory over Dartmouth. But she shut down for the rest of the season--and her quickness sometimes proved a liability, as she often overran passes...
...Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries maintain joint control of Taba and that he be allowed to run his hotel in peace...
Ersek, a junior this season, appeared likely to bloom after scoring the game-winning goal in an early-season 2-0 victory over Dartmouth. But she shut down for the rest of the season--and her quickness sometimes proved a liability, as she often overran passes...
...newspapers, brittle with age, spread in an ever-widening semicircle on the floor around his bed ... [mixed with] rolls of blueprints, maps, TV Guides, aviation magazines, and various unidentifiable objects. A narrow path had been cleared from his bed to the bathroom, but the tide of trash overran even that, topped off by numberless wads of used Kleenex1
...progressed in one short kilometer to a point where he could admit, "This is more fun than beating Dallas." The great O.J. Simpson, 37, handed off to the great Michael Baily, 7, who has cerebral palsy. Lenore Nicholson-Woodward, 69, a bona fide "little old lady from Pasadena," almost overran the escort vehicles with her impatient heel-and-toe style. Back down the road in Louisville, Muhammad Ali had carried his torch too. In his book The Greatest...