Word: overrun
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...Martians (if there are any) trained their telescopes (if they have any) on the Earth this year, they gazed on scenes of almost unbelievable chaos: Europe overrun by war, with famine and pestilence riding behind; Asia, which always knows famine and pestilence, also locked in war; the rest of the world feverishly preparing for a war of continents. Yet the men of Mars, if they have been watching this world long enough, know that it has always been thus on Earth, that inevitably out of disorder comes order, and out of chaos, progress...
There was a time, not so many hundreds of years ago, when California was overrun by Spaniards who lived, laughed, fought and loved in true Latin tradition. Caballeros and peons were happy under the sway of a good alcande, but completely miserable when he was replaced by the gold-greedy Alcande Quintero. And so young Diego came over the seas from Spain's West Point to rescue his people and restore to them his father's benign rule...
Contrasting his mission in the United States today with his appearance here in 1917 and '18 as the representative of a conquering power, Professor Andre Morize, Professor of French Literature, strongly urged the sending of war relief to nations overrun by the German armies, during a meeting called last night by the Student Council in the New Lecture Hall to further a drive for war relief funds...
...condemnation of Italian aggression was issued, no Greek credits were frozen. (Minister Diamantopoulos explained that locking up Greek funds would have given the false impression that Greece had already been overrun by Fascist invaders.) Then the hurried President, having attended to his duties, hastily returned to the main business on hand, campaigning. For the first time in several months domestic politics took precedence over international politics, affairs at home came before affairs abroad...
...Cover) Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan Peninsula has run a temperature. Periodic scares have sent it to fever pitch, then dropped it as, one way or another, neighboring powers got their way without bloodshed. Rumania is partitioned and overrun by the German Army. Bulgaria takes orders from the Axis. Even Yugoslavia, which has a relatively large, well-trained Army, has taken the path of appeasement. This week war came at last to the Balkans, to the weakest country, but to the one country determined enough to stand up to Axis threats - to Greece...