Word: overrun
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...home from a trip to Europe, warned the Security Council that the U.S. would remain in South Viet Nam as long as North Viet Nam, "with comradely assistance from the regime in Peking," continues to wage war there. "The U.S.," said Adlai, "cannot stand by while Southeast Asia is overrun by armed aggressors. If anyone has the illusion that my government will abandon the people of Viet Nam, or that we shall weary of the burden of support that we are rendering these people, it will be only due to ignorance of the strength and conviction of the American people...
...Ranger unit, and a company of engineers, pinned down in the area. A few weeks ago, the troops beat off two Viet Cong companies that attacked a hamlet west of Phumy and burned down several houses, leaving 400 peasants homeless. Government officials concede that the Communist guerrillas could overrun Phumy again should they mount enough strength. All the government can vow-and what it does vow-is to make any such onslaught extremely expensive for the Reds, and ultimately to drive them out again...
Makarios was studying law and theology at the University of Athens when Greece was overrun by the Nazis. He showed his fierce patriotism and his taste for intrigue by becoming a member of the Greek resistance. In 1946, on a scholarship from the World Council of Churches, he studied theology at Boston University until called home to become a bishop...
...nation, France has seemed to be dying all through the 20th century. It was bled white of its young men in World War I, humiliatingly beaten and overrun by the Nazis in World War II, and spent the postwar years futilely trying to put down a succession of colonial revolts, while at home governments fell and Premiers came and went amid the clamor of scuffling Deputies in the National Assembly. Only fading memories remained of the ancient days when the lily banners of the French kings triumphed from one end of Europe to the other, or when the Revolutionary Tricolor...
...bothered to replace him. Now, at the White House, President Johnson called an emergency early morning conference of top State Department, defense and intelligence advisers. While it was going on, a frantic telephone call from the U.S. charge in Panama informed him that the embassy might be overrun; Johnson personally ordered all secret papers burned. He then sent a seven-man mission, headed by Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, and Cyrus Vance, the new Deputy Secretary of Defense, racing down to Panama by jet. Finally, he put in a personal call to President Chiari...