Word: overrun
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...Syrians raged day afterday. For the past six weeks Syrian guns have off and on bombarded Israeli installations in a concerted effort to convince Israel that it must return captured Syrian territory. But last week the diplomatic cannonading turned into a full-scale battle. Syrian commandos attempted to overrun Israeli positions held since the October war and were beaten back. Aircraft were called in on both sides for the first dogfights since last fall. Syria claimed 17 Israeli planes shot down. Israel said it lost only two and claimed three Syrian MIGS...
...once posted the British Empire, the isolated little island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was no better known than it ought to be. Consisting of two slender strips of sand skirting a great lagoon-"like a V written by a shaky hand," wrote one visitor-it was overrun by forbidding jungle growth, wild donkeys and giant land crabs that, according to the few hundred migratory workers who settled the island and harvested its coconut palms, would mass like an army to attack and devour the unwary stroller...
...about. A two-week-old back injury had kept Walton out of three games, and he would almost surely be needed against Notre Dame. Led by high-scoring Center John Shumate (6 ft. 9 in.), the Irish, with their relentless full-court press and finely tuned fast break, had overrun their opponents by an average of 26 points a game...
...down two-story poverty pocket like those where some bands languished before making it, and where countless other bands have died out. Dogs wander in threes and fours through the garbage-strewn neighborhood which contains other struggling groups. "This is an old blue collar area rapidly being overrun by Puerto Ricans and hippies," explains Kent Bancroft, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist. "Somewhere along the line, they decided they would rather have us hippies...
...with the wounded. The Israelis, who pressed heavily on this point in Washington discussions with Kissinger, anticipate the return of 340 men, most of them captured in the early hours of the war when Israel's defensive positions along the Suez Canal and the Bar-Lev Line were overrun by the Egyptians. In return, the Israelis are prepared to surrender nearly 8,000 Egyptian prisoners, including 600 officers and 50 pilots...