Word: overrun
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...BUCKINGHAM PALACE the staff were all men except for the ticket seller, because the cubicles were by the pool and there was no need for a ladies changing room attendant. The first time I came in about eleven o' clock one morning. the pool was overrun with schoolkids, and a harried young man in elastic slacks was shouting at them from the far end. An old man approached me for my ticket and I asked him. "Is it all right to swim now? Won't I be in the way of all the kids...
...mainly in a series of tightly controlled battles of wit, each of which gathers force at swift pace, peaks, and then subsides to make way for the next demonstration of argumentative virtuosity. In Shakespeare we find ourselves in a dense forest, think with the odor of vegetable combustion and overrun with luxuriant undergrowth. Moliere places us on a manicured, perfumed lawn to follow along a box-wood maze of clipped hedges...
Noise Abatement Program. The expense has been minor, but still the booklet has been plagued by that old aerospace problem, the cost overrun. Costs have exceeded the budgeted...
...autumn of 1934, the Kiangsi soviet founded by Mao and his comrade-in-arms Chu Teh in the mountains of south-central China was about to be overrun by close to a million...
Word of the sightings spread across Australia, and in no time at all, the dusty hamlet of Eucla (pop. 8) was overrun by reporters and television crews in search of the desert nymph and her marsupial friends. Alas, they found not a single clue. Nor could anybody determine who the bikinied girl might be. An Adelaide man wondered if it could be his missing daughter, who had loved to hand-feed kangaroos near their former home. Steve Patupis, owner of Eucla's sole watering hole, the Amber Motel, suggested that "she" might be an itinerant Englishman who had disappeared...