Word: overrun
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...well as other well-informed persons in twelve countries of Europe-assured me that if Russia decided to overrun Europe today, it could finish the job within [a week]. About 10% of the people in Europe would help the Russians, and about 80% would remain passive-believing that a fight against the Russians is hopeless under today's odds...
...their gallant action had served, at least, as a temporary roadblock, and it forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun the tiny U.S. contingent and barreled on through, without opposition, to the crucial supply port of Pusan. If they had done that, Douglas MacArthur, instead of receiving victory plaudits in Seoul last week, would probably have been sitting in Tokyo directing the reinvasion of Korea from Japan. MacArthur instantly recognized...
...mistakenly stamped in Korea. Wetumka's Postmaster Bill Nicks, irate at what seemed like mishandling of the mail, fired an airmail complaint off to Oklahoma's Congressman Tom Steed. Steed checked up. He discovered that the field headquarters of young Carter's outfit had evidently been overrun by the enemy and its records scattered...
...Secretary of State Dean Acheson who turned their heads. The main battleground, he argued, is not in Asia, where the shooting is, but in Europe, where the balance of world power is. And in its present state of unreadiness, Western Europe could be overrun any time Russia decided to march her gigantic land army westward...
...political disadvantages of an open Chinese invasion (it would be a death blow to the Communist pretense of fighting for the national independence of Asia's people), and the fact that in the near future the native Reds alone can scarcely hope to overrun the French, make the odds slightly against an all-out attack this fall. But only slightly: the Red radio is still talking blithely of the coming "general offensive...