Word: overrun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sticky, glass-headed little men of Mars were watching Earth with their big, blue, magnifying eyes last week, they must have decided that the nation was either being overrun by man-eating weevils, or that something else-the marijuana habit, the cumulative horrors of television, or a vast atomic catastrophe-had addled the nerve centers of the masses. Armies of people were fleeing the country, and the rest of the populace seemed to be scurrying away from their homes like disturbed ants...
...there was no bobtail following of shoeshine boys, elevator operators and other shoestring speculators trying to make a killing with 90% of their stock bought on credit. Tightening-up of margins had ended that. Nor did the Bull of 1950 look like the 1946 animal, when the market was overrun with speculators, the easy-come, easy-go war rich and black-marketeers. This time the bull had fattened on the cash of those who bought for investment-security buyers who were less interested in a short-term quick profit than in the prospect of good dividends for the long pull...
...harnessing of the big river would affect all this, he was not quite sure. He worried vaguely about his spacious reaches being overrun, but as a believer in progress he only knew that he had to build his big dams and find...
Speaking as a soldier, Montgomery warned: "To promise to rescue the West in due course after a successful invasion from the East is quite useless. If the West is overrun again, that is ... the end of Western civilization . . . Do not let us fail to do the right things...
When it became apparent that the Communists would overrun China, many a U.S. diplomat welcomed a chance to stay at his post and see how Asia's new imperialists would operate. Last week, the U.S. had news of three...