Word: overrun
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...South Vietnamese, who contemptuously regard the tribespeople as moi (savages), have used the war to exploit the Montagnards in other ways. Under the French, the hill people were protected against being overrun by the South Vietnamese. In 1954 there were only about 20,000 Vietnamese living in the highland provinces. But during the late '50s, President Ngo Dinh Diem directed more than 200,000 Vietnamese, including many Catholic refugees from North Viet Nam, into the area...
...Communists launch Tet offensive with attacks in all major cities. Viet Cong raid U.S. embassy in Saigon, overrun Chinese quarter of Cholon, seize city of Hu?...
...Continental--which will house 176 students--was purchased by Harvard in March for $1,190,000. The top two floors of the five-story structure will be rented to married graduate students. The second and third floors will handle the overrun from the three Radcliffe Houses in the same manner that Claverly Hall serves the Harvard Houses...
...million cost overrun, although not a University debt, has severely strapped the Design School's maintenance budget. Gund hall is not a typical Harvard building-money was raised to pay for the building, but not for its upkeep...
...product registered the best three-month gain in six years. As the squeeze lessened, airlines were reporting new records of passenger travel. The highways glistened with a tidal flow of Americans getting away; truck drivers complained that the roads were glutted with campers. State parks and national forests were overrun-an ambiguous blessing...