Word: overrun
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This makes for increasingly hard choices in the Kremlin. The Russians can strike now, overrun Europe and Asia, and see their own cities destroyed by A-bombs. Or they can build toward effective A-bomb equality while the free world builds the defenses of Europe and Asia...
...whose godowns were crammed with U.S. goods when the embargo went into effect have no way of replenishing their stocks. Cut off from 25% of their former imports, the colony's businessmen worry about satisfying their demanding Red Chinese customers. If the customers grew angry, their armies could overrun Hong Kong in a few days...
...captain showed them how he had sunk the fort in the top of a knoll so that the fireports opened only six inches above the ground. Trenches connecting its four buried corner bastions were arched over with brickwork. The lightly armed soldiers figured that if the fort were overrun, they could continue fighting from the tunnels...
Economically, Western Europe had made great strides with U.S. help, but there was still the danger of Europe's being overrun by Red armies. Against this threat, after two long, critical years of interminable negotiating, Acheson and the foreign ministers had reached agreement at Brussels on military unity, and picked a supreme commander to lead a skeleton army. Western Europeans were war-weary, right next door to the enemy, and had good reason to be in a funk. The question was whether a different Secretary of State might have done more to rally them...
...from Hagaru to the south. The Chinese hit the two regiments at Yudam with no less than three divisions, but wilted under counterattack. They next failed to knock out the headquarters garrison at Hagaru, which would have prevented the division from assembling at that point. Finally, they failed to overrun the garrison at Koto, a move which would have blocked the marines' road...