Word: overrun
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...L.S.U. coeds recently launched a "drawers raid" on a men's dormitory, and two Cornell fraternity teams played a 30-hour touch football game (score: 664-538). Columbia students staged an 'all-cause" protest rally with marchers Brandishing such signs as HOOVER IN 64 and WE SHALL OVERRUN. The University of Chicago's pitiful attempt to revive football was protested by purists saving ban-the-ball signs in Greek...
...years, Persia has been overrun by conquerors ranging from Alexander the Great to Omar I the Caliph to Tamerlane. Never had it witnessed such a visitation as last week, when the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle met the pomp of the Peacock Throne...
...onetime, rebel comrades in Algeria's struggle for independence. Stronghold of the revolt was fabled Kabylia, a sweep of razor-spined mountains and deep gorges east of Algiers (see map). Populated by 1,000,000 fiercely independent Berbers who call themselves imazighen (free men), Kabylia was overrun by successive invasions of Arabs, Romans, Vandals, Spaniards, Turks, and finally the French -but it has never been totally subdued. No Algerians fought more heroically in the 1954-62 guerrilla war against France; yet the Kabyles charge that Arab Ben Bella has done little for their devastated region. Indeed, grass is growing...
...rebuttal, Portuguese Foreign Minister Alberto Franco Nogueira bitterly recalled that 1) his country saw its Asian enclave of Goa overrun by India in 1961, and 2) the Congo officially established military training camps against Angola, both without U.N. protest. Said he: "We have two sets of countries. Some are allowed anything they please with any justification which may occur to them; others...
...brilliantly attacks the colleges for failing today's youth. The college, writes Goodman, was once a self-sufficient community of teachers and students that preserved its independence from the state much like a medieval walled city. Now the walls have been breached by the state and the campuses overrun by mediocre administrators who truckle to outside pressures and intimidate the teachers. There are more administrators in New York State alone, writes Goodman, than in all the school systems of Western Europe. "The ultimate rationale of administration," writes Goodman, "is that a school is a teaching machine, to train...