Word: overrun
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When Painter Charles W. Hawthorne first came upon Provincetown, Mass., in 1898, it was a fishing town inhabited mostly by Portuguese who had scarcely ever seen a tourist, let alone an artist. Today the quaint town at the top of Cape Cod is a bustling art colony overrun by tourists, and no one doubts that Hawthorne-one of the great art teachers of his time-was above all the man responsible...
...houses grow smaller and families larger, man's home is fast becoming his kiddies' castle. Already teen-agers have overrun the living room, kitchen and den, driving their parents into the last bastion of apartness-the fortress bedroom...
...going. They sneaked over to Portofino, but the word got out, and now it's finito. Then they established a beachhead in Spain-Majorca, the Costa Brava -but soon that old Henry James feeling set in again. They switched surreptitiously to Jamaica and the Virgin Islands, and got overrun before they could unpack...
...white Portuguese. Gangs of Africans armed with long-bladed panga knives were attacking isolated farmhouses of Portuguese settlers. Excited reports from up-country told of five whites and two Africans holding off a band of attackers at the village of Lucunga until their ammunition ran out and they were overrun and hacked to pieces. The terrorists also were attacking blacks loyal to the regime. In retaliation, Portuguese authorities claimed they had inflicted "heavy" casualties on the attackers...
...sons becomes an army paymaster, and when his regiment is overrun by the enemy, he is too honest to turn over the cashbox. His captors are bribable, but Mother Courage haggles too long over the price, and the boy dies before the firing squad. Just before, Mother Courage has implied that she will do anything to save her son. It is characteristic Brechtian cynicism to stage a contest between greed and mother love, and have greed...