Word: overrun
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...artificially maintained reefs? And what of its people, now spread out across 200 islands? Will they retreat to a few fortified strongholds and learn to live, as the Dutch have, behind high walls that cut them off from the sea? It's not as dramatic a fate as being overrun by a rising tide, perhaps, but in its own way it's just as chilling...
...growing Soviet presence. "It's ironic. The Americans are actually responsible for the Soviets' keen interest in the Philippines. I was told during my trip to Russia that were it not for the Marcoses--with whom they can still communicate in a civilized way--they would have overrun the Philippines long ago. So you see, I'm actually America's best friend...
With detailed genealogies, biographies, photographs and maps, the historian traverses ground that has since been overrun by tyrannies and famine. The arena is variously host to epic, comedy and finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here...
...seemed childless, as parents have tried to shield their kids from kidnappers, gun battles and car bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer in the shadow of U.S. Abrams tanks, chasing other kids in impromptu games of catch, accompanying their parents to polling booths, decked out in their newest clothes. "It's a big day, and I wanted my girls to experience it," said Amina Hussein, a Baghdad housewife...
...many of their communities were on the verge of dying out. Since then, nearly 200,000 Jews have arrived, most of them from the former Soviet Union. The majority do not speak German and only half have joined a local synagogue. Even the Jewish community complains of being overrun. But the idea of quotas sticks in the craw. Says Charlotte Knobloch, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany: "Despite all the difficulties, it is a stroke of luck that Jews are returning to Germany." Claudia Roth, co-chairwoman of the Greens, takes a harder line...