Word: overrun
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...zone it was in because nobody could kick it out. The ball had to be dribbled up the field, and never bounced off the spongy turf at all but sank in, instead. Whenever the ball hit a puddle it would stop, though the player could not. He would overrun it and lose control with a resulting scramble in the puddle...
...Cavalry Division with 5,300 artillery and mortar shells in two days, and with 300 rockets in one hour (World War II Katushas, fired from multiple launchers mounted on trucks). In the same sector, a weakened battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment* was attacked from three sides, overrun and cut to ribbons...
...praised as a genuine step toward eventual disarmament and peace the shoring up of Western Europe's land defenses so that the Soviet Union could not overrun the Continent...
...Russian troops should start to overrun Western Europe tomorrow, I believe the Russian industrial centers would be destroyed from the air. Thus at this moment there is a balance in the West between the Communist would and the free nations. But it is a balance of two threats--no true balance of equal forces...
...Tirana, the capital, only two non-satellite legations remain - Italian and French - and their members are under constant police observation. The country is overrun with Russian "experts...