Word: overran
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...only wish there had been more trenches-no suggestion that he himself first rushed across the frontier, no repetition of arguments which a child could refute . . . can obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean troops who, in large numbers and heavily armed, crossed the frontier and overran the territory of a government which had been established by the United Nations...
Because he is half-Jewish, he fled Vienna in 1937 before the Nazis stomped in, conducted in Belgrade until the Nazis overran Yugoslavia, went back to Vienna as a factory worker...
...were aboard river boats plying the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland, giving boatmen examinations and treatments for venereal diseases which had been, carried from country to country. In Shanghai, a WHO nurse kept up a tuberculosis nursing program that had been started long before the Red armies overran China...
...planes had been operated by Nationalist China's government-owned CNAC and CATC. As Communist armies overran the mainland, the lines retreated to Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield. There, last November, most of their Chinese personnel declared allegiance to the Communists (TIME, Nov. 21) and shooed off Nationalist officials...
Princeton's powerful cross-country team overran both Yale and Harvard yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, Brookline, beating the Crimson, 11 to 41, and taking Yale...