Word: overrun
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Students complain that the ART has overrun the Loeb. Second-floor hallways are lined with one ART office after another, while the HRDC office has been reduced to a relatively small room shared with one of the ART's costume managers, Meserve says...
...have a kind word for Wall Street's gilded '80s? The new decade is only six weeks old, and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess. The melodramatic titles depict the American free-enterprise system as overrun by barbarians and liars, ambition and greed. And readers are lapping it all up. Just as they reveled in stories of the rich and famous during the past decade, today's inquiring minds are hungry for colorful tales about the pratfalls of the mighty...
...resistance persists for long, Operation Just Cause may lose some of its sheen. As the Pentagon boasted, immense force was speedily dispatched to Panama, the canal was quickly protected, key P.D.F. installations were overrun or neutralized, and Noriega was removed from any effective power. The cost, however, may have been a distressingly high loss of life among Panamanian civilians. An unofficial check of hospitals showed that more than 200 noncombatants had died. A drawn-out struggle with rising American casualties also loomed. At week's end, as 2,000 more troops were sent into Panama, the Pentagon conceded that...
Nimrud's glory ended abruptly in 612 B.C., when the Assyrians, badly overextended, were taken by surprise by the combined armies of the Medes, the Babylonians and the Scythians. Nimrud was overrun. The palace caught fire, and its ceilings collapsed. Over time, the Tigris changed course, and the glorious ziggurat was reduced to a formless mound...
...Weigley, Distinguished University Professor at Temple and author of Eisenhower's Lieutenants. "If Hitler had invaded, there is no doubt he would have wiped the floor with us," says Sir Michael Howard, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford and author of The Causes of Wars. "He would have overrun the country...