Word: overrun
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...last month ordered Mother Veronica to close her school. For one long, sleepless night she wrestled with the spirit of defiance. By 6 a.m. Mass, defiance had won. "I won't abandon my girls to illiteracy," said she. "They won't get my little girls unless they overrun me by brute force...
...Depression, the fusion of gospel shouts, spirituals and time spent in hole-in-the-wall joints where you ate chili and got a bellyache." It is something of a mystery when skiffle began infecting the sailors' pubs of Limehouse and Whitechapel, but in recent months the craze has overrun London and swarmed across Britain...
Promised Lands. The trouble stems from the Mennonites' prolific growth (girls marry at puberty, bear ten or twelve children). The 15,000 settlers have overrun their original 200,000 acres and an additional 100,000 more bought a few years ago. Alarmed, the Chihuahua government and the Mexican landowners have refused to sell more land. Mexico's federal government has threatened to renege on Obregón's pledge, has tried to force the Mennonites to accept the Mexican social-security system and electrification. Reluctantly, the Mennonites decided that it might be time to move. Teams...
...fortress, but no sheltered hideaway for the shy or the meek. Located at the crossroads of the historical highways along which the crusaders of Christendom would press toward the East and raiding Asian conquerors would drive south and west in endlessly repeated waves, the Danube basin had already been overrun and evacuated by dozens of conquerors before Arpad arrived. To ensure their own survival, fierce Magyar expeditionary forces soon extended their realm far over the mountains to cover what is now most of Russia's Balkan satellite empire...
...armistice: the Germans seized him and occupied Buda. He was later released by the U.S. Seventh Army from Nürnberg prison, now lives in Portugal, and at 88 has recently written his autobiography. Once again, as the Germans withdrew in 1944, conquerors swept down from the East to overrun the Hungarian plain, to rape, to pillage and to lay waste the once-gay Danube city of Budapest. This time they were Russian Communists, and close behind them as they marched came another army of political agitators, experts of the secret police, and a parasitic host of Hungarian expatriate Communists...